Andreas Drewke wrote:
> Hmm I am using now NetBSD/i386 and NetBSD/macppc for 2 years and I never 
> noticed that I am missing something- but now somehow I found out that its a 
> littly annoying that the cursor arrows (up/down) are not usable in any 
> console on both of these platforms...
> 
> I mean something useful like command history which you can browse normally 
> with the arrow keys...
> 
> Is there a way to enable it- it should be done by default too I guess, because 
> this is something that users just await... Or am I wrong?
> 
> Regards
> Andreas
> 

If you're using the standard NetBSD /bin/sh, them add the following line
to your ~/.shrc file:

set -o emacs

This enables command line history with the up and down cursor keys, as
well as various Emacs like editing commands. Ctrl-A moves cursor to line
end, Ctrl-E moves to line end and Ctrl-K deletes any text from the
current cursor position to the end of line.

Chris