Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 21:57:52 -0400 From: "Marty Landman" <martster@gmail.com> To: "Lowell Gilbert" <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: shell retrieve history (up arrow) not working Message-ID: <70063950607111857p5e98ba8ek5172a5048ddd8354@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <44zmfgwam5.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> References: <70063950607110604m46ad84fcscbd2027d962ed1a9@mail.gmail.com> <44zmfgwam5.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
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Hey thanks, I added that line to my .profile and am in like Flynn now. Marty On 7/11/06, Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> wrote: > > "Marty Landman" <martster@gmail.com> 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/
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