From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 17 19:49:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA11492 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 17 Sep 1998 19:49:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from starlight.bogusdomain.ca (mcmail.CIS.McMaster.CA [130.113.20.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA11484 for ; Thu, 17 Sep 1998 19:49:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from strohsr@mcmail.cis.mcmaster.ca) Received: from localhost (ralph@localhost) by starlight.bogusdomain.ca (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id WAA25503; Thu, 17 Sep 1998 22:48:00 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from strohsr@mcmail.cis.mcmaster.ca) Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 22:47:59 -0400 (EDT) From: Ralph Strohschein To: gordon.filby@pef.fzk.de cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: History key doesn't work 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 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message