<html><head></head><body><p dir="ltr">OK. I was unaware of ESC KKK but I never look away from the monitor when typing. Haven't for years.</p>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">Jeff Frontz <jeff.frontz@gmail.com> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br /><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 6:41 AM, Steve VanSlyck <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:s.vanslyck723@gmail.com" target="_blank">s.vanslyck723@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br />
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">It's easier to press one arrow key a few times than to type out a command phrase.</p>
</blockquote></div><br />It's way easier for a touch-typist to keep your fingers on/close to the home-row and hit "escape-K-K-K-K" than to take your hand off (and probably eyes away from the screen) and go find the arrow keys.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br /></div><div class="gmail_extra">Note that most of the comments in this thread apply to "bash" (and to some degree to ksh) in "emacs" mode. If you'd rather use the one, true editor (and save stress on your pinky) for CLI editing, you can do "set -o vi".</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br /></div><div class="gmail_extra">Note also that ksh always writes history to the history file -- this is especially useful when you share the history file across windows/shells so that you can use/edit the same command in another window and run it again/concurrently (e.g., to run the same thing in another directory or on a different set of parameters).</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br /></div><div class="gmail_extra">Jeff</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br /></div></div>
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