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 the command line. I have done set -o emacs and the backspace works, but not the arrow keys and the delete keys.
Also is it possible to set the up and down arrow key to cycle through the command line history?
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