Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 22:44:48 -0400 (EDT) From: Ralph Strohschein <strohsr@mcmail.cis.mcmaster.ca> To: gordon.filby@pef.fzk.de Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: History key doesn't work Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980917224303.2124A-100000@moonlight.bogusdomain.ca>
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---------- Forwarded message ---------- On Wed, 16 Sep 1998 groggy@iname.com wrote: > > Try ``set -o emacs'' if you're running /bin/sh. > > > > > Hallo, > > > > > > I'm new to Unix and even newer to FreeBSD. I'm missing greatly the feature > > > I've seen > > > often in Linux - the list of recently used commands on the cursor arrow > > > keys. When I hit > > > the up arrow I get stuff like [DEsktop etc. Any ideas ? I've installed the > > > German > > > keyboard (I think I've tried both ) on other machine at home. > > i like "set -E" ... > > stick it in your .profile or wahtever. > Why not install the bash shell, which is the default shell for most Linux distributions? You can install this on your FreeBSD machine by using the ports, /usr/ports/shell/bash1 or /usr/ports/shells/bash2, depending if you want the older or the current version of the shell. I'm quite happy with version 2.01. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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