Re: How to get Command Buffer

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Mark Ovens <mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org>
Date
18 Apr 2000 15:41:28
Subject
Re: How to get Command Buffer
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20000418193300.E232@parish


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On Mon, Apr 17, 2000 at 10:02:56AM -0700, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> * Chanandler Boing <sysadmin@futuresoft.com> [000417 09:57] wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > How can I get a Command Buffer on FreeBSD 4.0? By Command Buffer, I mean
> > that you hit the Up Arrow and it types the last command you entered.
> >
> > I've got this in RH Linux and SCO, so I assume it's easy to do in FreeBSD.
> > I'd sincerely appreciate your help on this.
>
> run 'sh' then type 'set -o emacs'
>

or ``set -E''. Can you tell me what needs adding to ~/.profile to make
this the default behaviour when starting sh(1)? Come to think about
it, ~/.profile is probably not the best place as I usually start sh(1)
from a csh(1) prompt (so it isn't a login shell).

> or install another shell from /usr/ports/shells/
>
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