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Date:      Sun, 12 Apr 2020 13:29:47 +0100
From:      RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Ars Technica article on FreeBSD new user experience
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On Sun, 12 Apr 2020 08:47:33 +0200
Piotr P. Stefaniak wrote:

> On 2020-04-11 14:32:36, Enji Cooper wrote:
>=20
> >> Yeah, history isn't kept by default, not sure if there's an option
> >> to keep it, if there is, I don't see it in the man page, and
> >> ctrl-r doesn't work either. =20
> >
> >	There is history support, but it=E2=80=99s not on by default and
> >	it=E2=80=99s not spelled the same way as other shells (I don=E2=80=99t =
think
> >	it=E2=80=99s persistent between shell invocations, however): =20
>=20
> But the commands history isn't persistent, is it? That together with
> command completion (as opposed to file name completion, which is
> already there) is very important to have, in my opinion.

/bin/sh is a lightweight shell for executing system shell scripts. It's
not really there to be a long-term login shell.=20



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