From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 21 12:39:09 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA25548 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 21 Jan 1999 12:39:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from finsco.com (ns1.finsco.com [216.0.231.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA25540 for ; Thu, 21 Jan 1999 12:39:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from billh@finsco.com) Received: from finsco.com by finsco.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id OAA29521; Thu, 21 Jan 1999 14:36:01 -0600 Message-ID: <36A7900F.49194E38@finsco.com> Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 14:37:35 -0600 From: Bill Hamilton X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd questions Subject: ksh history Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG If anyone is using ksh as their shell and gets .sh_history to be used, please let me know how. I set the HISTFILE environment variable in my .profile. Something like typeset -x HISTFILE=~/.sh_history I even tried creating the file with touch, to see if that would "prime" it. It's a no go for me. Also, when using vi as the editor, can you use the arrow keys to backtrack through history? I have to use "k", as in vi, which is ok, but on Solaris at work, I can use either one and I use whatever my fingers reach first. The translation is handled by PC-Xware, so that is obviously "cheating" . To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message