On Mon, Mar 01, 2021 at 09:19:58AM -0500, Scott Bennett wrote:
> That very well could be part of the problem. However, emacs the editor scares
> me, so I try to stick to vi :)  The reason I set EDITOR and VISUAL as above is
> because if I only set $EDITOR=vi, then the command-line editing mode becomes
> vi style, which is much less pleasant than emacs style.

This is a ksh quirk.

You can use this command in your ksh config to use emacs key bindings
regardless of the value of EDITOR: set -o emacs