From owner-freebsd-newbies Sat Jul 6 20:37:42 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B5F337B400 for ; Sat, 6 Jul 2002 20:37:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jive.SoftHome.net (jive.SoftHome.net [66.54.152.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 50EA043E09 for ; Sat, 6 Jul 2002 20:37:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from yid@softhome.net) Received: (qmail 14623 invoked by uid 417); 7 Jul 2002 03:37:35 -0000 Received: from shunt-smtp-out-0 (HELO softhome.net) (172.16.3.12) by shunt-smtp-out-0 with SMTP; 7 Jul 2002 03:37:35 -0000 Received: from unknown ([216.194.27.142]) (AUTH: LOGIN yid@softhome.net) by softhome.net with esmtp; Sat, 06 Jul 2002 21:37:32 -0600 Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2002 23:36:11 -0400 From: Joshua Lee To: "James" Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question about up-arrow when non-root Message-Id: <20020706233611.47a7dad5.yid@softhome.net> In-Reply-To: <001e01c22494$c63643c0$0301a8c0@sys.gtei.net> References: <20020706022613.0766937B401@hub.freebsd.org> <001e01c22494$c63643c0$0301a8c0@sys.gtei.net> Organization: Plan B Software Labs X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.8claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.6) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 5 Jul 2002 19:28:11 -0700 "James" wrote: > access a command that I typed previously, I keep trying to hit the up arrow. > Unfortunately, what I get is : ^[[A and not the previous command. The advice about chsh already given is useful; however if you don't want to change from /bin/sh try typing "set -o emacs", add this to your .shrc in order for this to be the default. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message