From bash to ksh…

I’ve finally made the move. For some time now I’ve been using bash in vi mode - however there is just one little niggle with it, every now and then the display messes up and you start seeing things like this:

le/why/has/this/moved/here?puter ~ $ mplayer /some/long/path/to/some/fi

That is really really really annoying when it happens.

Anyway, a colleague mentioned some time ago that this was the reason he moved back to Korn Shell… so I figured I’d give it a go. So far the only thing I’ve not managed to get working is coloured ls output…. Everything else is working, tab completion (even though I’m trying to use Esc + \ instead), coloured PS1 prompt etc etc … most importantly though, vi mode hasn’t, as of yet, messed up!

I’m starting to get a little concerned though - I’ve moved away from Gnome to Fluxbox at home and to fvwm2 at work… then on top of this I’ve now changed my shell from bash to ksh - what is happening!?!

Edit: I’ve now got coloured ls working… I was too involved reading the .bashrc files in Gentoo trying to work out how bash does it… instead I should have just typed man ls….

  --color[=WHEN]
    control whether color is used to distinguish file types.  WHEN may be `never',
    `always', or `auto'

Duh!

michaelfclarke@mikes-computer michaelfclarke $ alias ls
ls='ls --color=always'

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