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From: brian@shift.lan.awfulhak.org (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Arrow keys
Date: 6 Mar 1997 12:19:28 GMT
Organization: Awfulhak Ltd.
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References: <331DFD3F.5150@biella.alpcom.it> <331E1611.361E@bluep.com>
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In article <5flcuj$cn1$1@easystreet03>,
tedm@agora.rdrop.com (Ted Mittelstaedt) writes:
> In article <331E1611.361E@bluep.com>, Sam Hadzajlic <samh@bluep.com> says:
>>
>>Luca Bertoncello wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On my computer I have installed FreeBSD. Now I want to know if I can
>>> install a program like DOSKEY of DOS, so I can scroll history with arrow
>>> keys.
>>>
>>> Someone can help me?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Luca Bertoncello
>>> (lucabert@biella.alpcom.it)
>>just use tcsh !
>
> The bash shell also does this. You will need to do two things to enable
> it though, first you will need to make sure that the TERM environmental
> variable is defined to a terminal emulation, such as vt100, and second
> you may need to add the alternative shell program into /etc/shells
Yep, sh does it too with "set -o emacs".
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> <brian@freebsd.org>
<http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !