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Date:      Thu, 17 Sep 1998 22:47:59 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Ralph Strohschein <strohsr@mcmail.cis.mcmaster.ca>
To:        gordon.filby@pef.fzk.de
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: History key doesn't work 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980917224652.25501A-100000@starlight.bogusdomain.ca>

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On Wed, 16 Sep 1998 groggy@iname.com wrote:

> > 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.
> 
Why not install the bash shell, which is the default shell for most
Linux distributions? 

You can install this on your FreeBSD machine by using
the ports, /usr/ports/shell/bash1 or /usr/ports/shells/bash2, depending if
you want the older or the current version of the shell. I'm quite happy
with version 2.01. 





  






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