Use of function keys for common comands at the ksh prompt.

[andrew.d.hay]

In article <1991Feb17.235721.20854 at shibaya.lonestar.org> afc at shibaya.lonestar.org (Augustine Cano) writes:
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"Is there a way to use the escape sequences generated by the function keys
"as function names?  Alternatively, is there another way to accomplish
"the same thimg? (at the ksh level, of course; I know the keyboard driver
"could be modified, but this is not an option.)

nope, you're SOL.  strings that begin with ^[ are either syntax errors
or invalid alias names.

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