Darren Birkett wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've installed bash on aix 5.1, as I like it as a shell much more than ksh.
> One of my colleagues is complaining that when he uses the up arrow for
> history, the cursor is positioned at the beginning of the line, rather than
> the end of the line like in linux. It's impossible then to delete the last
> character on the line. Why does the history behave like this in AIX, and
> is there a way to change it so it behaves more like in Linux?

this is odd, since I'm using bash on AIX 5.1 and cursor is always at
EOL.

bash --version
GNU bash, version 2.05b.0(1)-release (powerpc-ibm-aix5.1)
Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

oslevel -r
5100-05


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