Make Arrow and delete keys work in KornShell command line

Question

I am new to Unix and am using sun solaris (v10 I think). I have my shell set as KornShell (ksh).

I am wondering how to make the arrow keys and delete key work in th

Answer 1

Since it took me forever to figure out the delete key on my Mac, to get the delete key to work you can add stty erase ^? to your .kshrc file. Instead of typing the actual characters for ^? you can just hit the delete key and it will output ^?. So in combination with Tim's answer my .kshrc file looks like

set -o emacs
alias __A=`echo "\020"`     # up arrow = ^p = back a command
alias __B=`echo "\016"`     # down arrow = ^n = down a command
alias __C=`echo "\006"`     # right arrow = ^f = forward a character
alias __D=`echo "\002"`     # left arrow = ^b = back a character
alias __H=`echo "\001"`     # home = ^a = start of line
alias __Y=`echo "\005"`     # end = ^e = end of line
stty erase                  # prevent command from being echoed
stty erase ^?               # allow for delete key to work