From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 15 22:29:39 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA15795 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 15 Jul 1998 22:29:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from vanessa.eliuk.org (pme96.sunshine.net [209.17.178.96]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA15789 for ; Wed, 15 Jul 1998 22:29:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kevin_eliuk@sunshine.net) Received: from localhost (cagey@localhost) by vanessa.eliuk.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id WAA00618; Wed, 15 Jul 1998 22:28:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cagey@vanessa.eliuk.org) Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1998 22:28:26 -0700 (PDT) From: "Kevin G. Eliuk" Reply-To: "Kevin G. Eliuk" To: Johann Visagie cc: Chris Browning , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Doskey In-Reply-To: <19980715204302.A17838@cityip.co.za> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 15 Jul 1998, Johann Visagie wrote: => Most shells have very complex history manipulation features. If you use => bash, try "help history", or search the man page for "HISTORY". AFAIK, bash => inherits most of its history features from csh, so most csh-like shells and => derivatives will have similar mechanisms. Personally, I find csh-like => history constructs like !!, !$, and ^..^.. much more convenient than any => history window. But that's just me. :-) => => -- V I am surprised that noone has mentioned uncommenting this in ~/.profile in 2.2.5 and earlier and ~/.shrc in 2.2.6. # Uncomment next line to enable the builtin emacs(1) command line editor # in sh(1), e.g. C-a -> beginning-of-line. set -o emacs and it enables the same feature as `Doskey' as well as others. Regards, Discover Rock Solid Kevin G. Eliuk Discover FreeBSD http://www.FreeBSD.Org --==**==-- --==**==-- --==**==----==**==-- --==**==-- --==**==-- All of my opinions are my own and in no way reflect those of my employers, past, present, or future, either real or imagined. --==**==-- --==**==-- --==**==-- --==**==-- --==**==-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message