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From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To: Len Conrad <LConrad@Go2France.com>
Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: shell behavior
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On 2002-02-25 06:40, Len Conrad wrote:
> One behavior I prefer is <letter> up arrow will select the commands from 
> history beginning with <letter>.
> 
> On some FreeBSD machines I use, this is standard, and on others, the select 
> is not done, one just gets the non-selected history.
> 
> I've been looking at the .shrc and .cshrc files for $USER  and /root, but I 
> cannot find out what parameter specifies this behavior.

I believe what you're looking for are the ``bindkey'' commands of the file
/usr/src/etc/root/dot.cshrc shown below:

	# $FreeBSD: src/etc/root/dot.cshrc,v 1.28 2001/01/10 02:37:16 archie Exp $
	#
	# .cshrc - csh resource script, read at beginning of execution by each shell
	#
	...

	if ($?prompt) then
		# An interactive shell -- set some stuff up
		set prompt = "`hostname -s`# "
		set filec
		set history = 100
		set savehist = 100
		set mail = (/var/mail/$USER)
		if ( $?tcsh ) then
			bindkey "^W" backward-delete-word
			bindkey -k up history-search-backward
			bindkey -k down history-search-forward
		endif
	endif

The ``bindkey -k up'' and ``bindkey -k down'' commands are tcsh-specific,
that's why they're wrapper in an `if (?tcsh ) then .. endif' block.  Note
though, that you can't use these in older versions of FreeBSD where the
system /bin/csh was not tcsh.

Giorgos Keramidas                           FreeBSD Documentation Project
keramida@{freebsd.org,ceid.upatras.gr}      http://www.FreeBSD.org/docproj/

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