Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone else having a problem with bash?

[wraeth <wraeth@wraeth.id.au>]

On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 02:36:50AM +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> On 10/07/15 02:34, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> >I tried it [zsh], for exactly 10 seconds. My home/end keys didn't work. This
> >gave me the impression of an unfinished project. Why on earth would
> >anyone release a program after 1990 that doesn't know the home/end keys?
> >:-/
> 
> PS:
> 
> The "Del" key doesn't work either.
> 
> 

All of these are likely due to your input mode; and for the record the same
situation can exist in Bash as well (I've had customer servers that, when I hit
Home or Del, drops out of insert mode and changes three characters to uppercase
- it's frustrating!).

The 'vim' input mode is often difficult to understand at first, but the trick
with it is that, like vim, it has two states - insert mode and command mode,
whereby insert mode (oddly enough) inserts characters to the line, and command
mode allows for things like 'cw' to change a word or '~' to change the case of a
character.

That being said, it's all a matter of preference, and you should use whatever
feels most comfortable for you.
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