Re: zsh vs bash

[Tomislav Vujec <tvujec@srce.hr>]

jwl@atlanta.cray.com (James W. Lynch) writes:
> This subject brings up a question I've had for a long time.  Bash appears
> to be the shell that I get when I log in as root or do an su command.
> I'm from the old school and prefer vi editing of commands, but I have
> yet to be able to make bash use vi as root.  I've set EDITOR and FCEDIT.
> I've set editing-mode vi.  I can't seem to get root to use anything
> but emacs editing mode.  Is this a diabolical plot by the Linux developers
> to force emacs on the world? 8^)
> 
> Bash works as expected, described and designed when I'm a normal
> user.
> 
> Can I do it? How?

I use vi as a root, and vi editing mode, but in zsh. Yes my root shell
is zsh. Now days when zsh runs autoconf configure scripts I am even
thinking to put it for /bin/sh instead of bash... heard that zsh
developers do that.

P.S. As a normal user I use xemacs, but of course in viper mode :-)

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Tomislav Vujec                                   tvujec@srce.hr
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