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Re: ksh: set +o emacs-usemeta



In message <Pine.GSO.4.02.10306150034080.9065-100000@world.cntw.com>
	so spake Mats O Jansson (maja):

> I want it. I care. This way I don't have to patch ksh to get the
> old behaviour. I don't need it every day, but often enough to find
> the current behaviour annoying.

Hmm, bash (via readline) has a convert-meta variable that controls
this.  I don't think AT&T ksh has a way to specify this (maybe the
latest ksh does).  POSIX does not specify the emacs mode (see here
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904975/utilities/sh.html)
for the reason why.

 - todd