when starting a new ksh it doesn't set vi as the editor 1

[4plexman]

I have a Unix menu and, of course, one option is to shell to the OS. To do this I run the "ksh" command. When I do this it looses the "set -o vi" setting. Without it the backspace key does't work and I can't pop up past commands; its real irritating.

how can I shell to the OS and retain or start this setting?

 

[clund]

if you add the line:
EDITOR=/usr/bin/vi

to /etc/environment then the EDITOR will always be set to vi...

 

[lillracksingen]

You can also choose command-line editor with the -o option to ksh, such as:
[tt]ksh -o vi[/tt]

 

[Yegolev]

you may also need to:
export VISUAL=/usr/bin/vi

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