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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: PC-keyboard config
Date: 17 Jan 1996 23:05:40 GMT
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morpheus@aksi.net (Jeremy Dobrick) writes:

>  For example when I used to use Linux the up 
> arrow key would bring up my last command and I could edit lines with the 
> arrow, backspace, and delete keys.

This is unrelated to ``the standard PC keyboard layout''.  It's a
matter of the shell you're using.

The default shell is a plain ol' Berkeley csh, which doesn't support
this.  Any other shell around does, however.  tcsh, ksh and bash (both
from the ports) do it by default.  The standard /bin/sh (ash -- Almquist
Shell) does it after telling ``set -o emacs''.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)