How to get a "default editor" mode in Solaris ksh93 ? / was: Re: [ksh93-integration-discuss] Re: TAB-TAB completion patch #003(which makes "gmacs" the default editor mode) / was: Re:[ast-users] RFE: Make TAB completion in ksh93 work like ESC-'='...

[David Korn]

cc:  ast-users at research.att.com
Subject: Re: How to get a "default editor" mode in Solaris ksh93 ? / was: Re:   [ksh93-integration-discuss] Re: TAB-TAB completion patch #003(which   makes "gmacs" the default editor mode) / was: Re:[ast-users] RFE: Make   TAB completion in ksh93 work like ESC-'='...
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> ... do you have an idea how we still get a default editor mode set in
> Solaris without violating the POSIX standard ? Editing /etc/profile as
> part of the Solaris upgrade/patch process may not be polite and crawling
> after each user's ~/.profile is even less polite than that... do you
> have any other ideas how this could be done ?
> 
> 

The best way would be to provide a default .profile file that sets this
by default.  This way existing users won't be affected but new users
can have the default set to emacs and if they don't like that default they
can change it.

David Korn
dgk at research.att.com