From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 17 00:57:01 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA17041 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 17 Sep 1998 00:57:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from abc.xyz.net (froggy.anchorage.ptialaska.net [208.151.119.238]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA16926 for ; Thu, 17 Sep 1998 00:56:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from groggy@iname.com) From: groggy@iname.com Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by abc.xyz.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id XAA03128; Wed, 16 Sep 1998 23:54:33 -0800 (AKDT) (envelope-from groggy@iname.com) Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 23:54:33 -0800 (AKDT) X-Sender: abc@abc.xyz.net To: Brian Somers cc: "Filby, Gordon" , "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" Subject: Re: History key doesn't work In-Reply-To: <199809161509.QAA13603@woof.lan.awfulhak.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Try ``set -o emacs'' if you're running /bin/sh. > > > Hallo, > > > > I'm new to Unix and even newer to FreeBSD. I'm missing greatly the feature > > I've seen > > often in Linux - the list of recently used commands on the cursor arrow > > keys. When I hit > > the up arrow I get stuff like [DEsktop etc. Any ideas ? I've installed the > > German > > keyboard (I think I've tried both ) on other machine at home. i like "set -E" ... stick it in your .profile or wahtever. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message