Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 09:10:26 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: "Marty Landman" <martster@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: shell retrieve history (up arrow) not working Message-ID: <44zmfgwam5.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <70063950607110604m46ad84fcscbd2027d962ed1a9@mail.gmail.com> (Marty Landman's message of "Tue, 11 Jul 2006 09:04:58 -0400") References: <70063950607110604m46ad84fcscbd2027d962ed1a9@mail.gmail.com>
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"Marty Landman" <martster@gmail.com> writes: > I have a 4.8 installation with a root account and one user account. The root > account up-arrow history retrieve feature works fine, while on my user > account it doesn't, displaying instead > > $ ^[[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.]
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