In article <199811160150.UAA00387@parkdrive.home.net> revilak@umbsky.cc.umb.edu (Steve Revilak) writes:
>A few days ago, while writing a shell script, I found myself doing a
>little digging through the sh man pages and I came across something that
>I had never noticed before.  The -E option...which enables 'emacs style
>command-line editing'.  You know, that's pretty friendly.  The forward
>and back arrows work...and up recalls the last command executed.
>
>Never realized that capability was built into the bourne shell.

sh -o emacs and sh -o vi do what you expect...

christos