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Date:      Mon, 21 Jul 1997 23:52:46 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      Wolfgang Helbig <helbig@MX.BA-Stuttgart.De>
To:        peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva)
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Some questions from a user.
Message-ID:  <199707212152.XAA00120@helbig.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de>
In-Reply-To: <199707211212.HAA12973@bonkers.taronga.com> from Peter da Silva at "Jul 21, 97 07:12:47 am"

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> 2.) In the shells, there is no history function with cursor up/ down keys like
>   DOSKEY, NT or OS/2's key variable for cmd.exe, or even with Linux shells.
>   Like NextStep's csh, the FreeBSD shells lack cursor history key support.

You can use good old /bin/sh and get your history editing by "set -E".

Wolfgang



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