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Date:      Wed, 16 Sep 1998 23:54:33 -0800 (AKDT)
From:      groggy@iname.com
To:        Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>
Cc:        "Filby, Gordon" <Gordon.Filby@pef.fzk.de>, "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: History key doesn't work 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980916235335.627K-100000@abc.xyz.net>
In-Reply-To: <199809161509.QAA13603@woof.lan.awfulhak.org>

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> 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.


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