From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 18 07:55:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA20990 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 18 Apr 1998 07:55:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from abby.skypoint.net (abby.skypoint.net [199.86.32.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA20970 for ; Sat, 18 Apr 1998 14:55:35 GMT (envelope-from bruce@zuhause.mn.org) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by abby.skypoint.net (8.8.7/jl 1.3) with UUCP id JAA22510; Sat, 18 Apr 1998 09:55:25 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from bruce@localhost) by zuhause.mn.org (8.8.8/8.8.7) id JAA08742; Sat, 18 Apr 1998 09:54:35 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sat, 18 Apr 1998 09:54:35 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199804181454.JAA08742@zuhause.mn.org> From: Bruce Albrecht To: Shawn Ramsey Cc: Stuart Clarke , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: History In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 20.3 "Vatican City" XEmacs Lucid Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.108) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Shawn Ramsey writes: > > Hi, > > > > Just a simple question: > > > > How do you configure BSD so that pressing the up arrow at the command line > > scrolls through the command history? > > This is shell related. I know tcsh and bash support this. Im not sure > about the others. FreeBSD's /bin/sh supports it too. Just enter set -o emacs and it sets up an emacs style editor for the command line. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message