In article <41DEE84F.4040700@pandora.be>,
Christian Goetz  <cgoetz@pandora.be> wrote:
>In order to avoid retyping repetitive commands, I set the console mode 
>in line editing  mode with: set -E
>I'm wondering if this can be set once for all to take advantage of it 
>with xterm ?
>Is it another setting that applies to xterm ?
>

man sh

or:

cat  > ~/.profile
export ENV=$HOME/.shinit

cat > ~/.shinit
set -E