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Solaris comes with the Korn shell (/bin/ksh) which supports this.

All you need to do is make sure you're using the Korn shell and then
type "set -o vi" to turn on vi-like editing or "set -o emacs" to turn
on emacs-like editing.

Korn shell also supports the "fc" command, which lets you actually run
a real editor on the previous command (among other things).  This is
great if you build a big while loop or pipeline and mess it up slightly
because you can edit it in a real editor.

For more info, do:

        man fc
        man ksh

Contact your system administrator to have your shell changed.  If you
are the system administrator, you might be able to use
"usermod -s /bin/ksh username".

  - Logan, who wonders what was so bad about "chsh" and why it's gone.

Greetings,

I've been working in an HP environment for a few years and stumbled
across a great utility called ied.

Basically, it lets you cycle through previous commands and edit
them, if necessary (using vi-like commands) of any command-driven
program (such as ftp) by specifying

        $ ied executable

I've recently moved to a Solaris environment and have found no
such equivalent.  My understanding (which could be wrong) is that
ied is HP proprietary and hence I cannot compile it on Solaris.

I know that there is the GNU readline library that lets you compile
this functionality into your own software, but does anyone know of
any software that provides this sort of functionality.

Thanks.

I'm happy with the command-line editing in the shell I'm using.  What
I want is vi style command-line editing & history in command-line
programs (besides the shell), such as ftp, sqlplus (Oracle utility),
telnet to name just a few. This is what ied gives you on HP.