Re: /bin/sh command history in NetBSD/i386

[Marco Beishuizen <mbeis%xs4all.nl@localhost>]

On Wed, 1 Feb 2017, the wise Robert Elz wrote:

> As long as that was from the right arrow key, that's fine (up arrow, the 
> most relevant for getting started with cmd line editing should have A 
> instead of C)

Yes indeed it was the right arrow key :).

> I got your off-list message, not terribly useful, mostly because I had a 
> brain fade, and asked for the wrong stuff ...
>
> But in that you didn't have editing enabled (no "set -o emacs" or "set 
> -o vi") or if you had attempted one of those, it didn't work.

"set -o emacs" is in my .shrc, so I thought this would do the trick.

> Make sure you've done that (or the equiv "set -E" or "set -V" (which to 
> use depends whether you prefer emacs (ugh!) or vi (yay) editing 
> commands...)
>
> Then try
> 	fc -l and verify that it lists the commands that you have entered.

Hey, this does something! So it looks like my .shrc isn't read at all. 
There is a line "export ENV="$HOME/.shrc" in .profile, but that doesn't 
seem to be read at startup either.

So how to get .shrc and .profile to be read at login?

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