From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 12 01:58:02 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C051016A4DA for ; Wed, 12 Jul 2006 01:58:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from martster@gmail.com) Received: from wx-out-0102.google.com (wx-out-0102.google.com [66.249.82.206]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 830FE43D6D for ; Wed, 12 Jul 2006 01:57:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from martster@gmail.com) Received: by wx-out-0102.google.com with SMTP id h30so15510wxd for ; Tue, 11 Jul 2006 18:57:52 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=lWvoyMh+Vod8vG2I7sZnj42pWYbEC9OL1mIqiK2JNXacD0ORNaqM+ReT1da8ydFDG5AGtHflKZ7zdH3o7IMpCr9ygYFW7vZGJ0au/tBvwwLXQlTXY23eGljNukxoL4woq7n4fjBr5iX77cAnbHbV5xWySxd8/cemui70kzkEEuc= Received: by 10.70.38.5 with SMTP id l5mr157801wxl; Tue, 11 Jul 2006 18:57:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.70.117.3 with HTTP; Tue, 11 Jul 2006 18:57:52 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <70063950607111857p5e98ba8ek5172a5048ddd8354@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 21:57:52 -0400 From: "Marty Landman" To: "Lowell Gilbert" In-Reply-To: <44zmfgwam5.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <70063950607110604m46ad84fcscbd2027d962ed1a9@mail.gmail.com> <44zmfgwam5.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: shell retrieve history (up arrow) not working X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 01:58:02 -0000 Hey thanks, I added that line to my .profile and am in like Flynn now. Marty On 7/11/06, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > > "Marty Landman" writes: > > > $ ^[[A^[[C^[[B^[[D > > > > when I press the arrow keys in order (up, right, down, left) > > They are using different shells. Root uses csh by default, your user > account is using sh. Try "set -o emacs" for sh. [Or try csh, but I > try to avoid that because it's so bad as a scripting language.] > -- Web Installed Formmail - http://face2interface.com/formINSTal/ Webmaster's BBS - http://bbs.face2interface.com/