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Date:      Thu, 16 Jul 1998 08:09:59 +0200
From:      Johann Visagie <wjv@cityip.co.za>
To:        "Kevin G. Eliuk" <kevin_eliuk@sunshine.net>
Cc:        Chris Browning <brownicm@netunlimited.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Doskey
Message-ID:  <19980716080959.A19152@cityip.co.za>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980715222344.432D-100000@vanessa.eliuk.org>; from Kevin G. Eliuk on Wed, Jul 15, 1998 at 10:28:26PM -0700
References:  <19980715204302.A17838@cityip.co.za> <Pine.BSF.3.96.980715222344.432D-100000@vanessa.eliuk.org>

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On Wed, 15 Jul 1998 at 22:28 SAT, Kevin G. Eliuk wrote:
> 
> I am surprised that noone has mentioned uncommenting this in ~/.profile
> in 2.2.5 and earlier and ~/.shrc in 2.2.6.
> 
> # Uncomment next line to enable the builtin emacs(1) command line editor
> # in sh(1), e.g. C-a -> beginning-of-line.
> set -o emacs
> 
> and it enables the same feature as `Doskey' as well as others.

Hey, I admit I didn't know that was available in sh.  bash uses emacs line
editing by default.  Of course, what is _really_ funky is to "set -o vi",
though I admit that even I can't stand that for long periods of time,
inveterate vi user that I am.  ;-)

-- V

Johann Visagie | Email: wjv@CityIP.co.za | Tel: +27 21 419-7878

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