On Fri, Mar 27, 1998 at 03:39:07PM -0500, Christopher R. Bowman wrote:

> On Fri, 27 Mar 1998, Steve Revilak wrote:
> 
> >Having worked in VMS environments, there is one VMS convention (also exists
> >in DOS) regarding command line history whose Unix equivalent I'd love to
> >know.

> Check out tcsh probably in the package system, if not it compile pretty
> easy for me a few year ago.  It is basically a csh replacement that has
> this functionality.

ksh comes standard with NetBSD, and it supports this sort of command-line
history - access via arrow keys. You control the sort of command line editing
you get by setting the EDITOR environment variable. I believe there are only
two supported modes - emacs and vi. With emacs mode, arrow keys work. With
vi mode, you use hjlk as you would in vi, after whacking the escape key to
get into command mode. You can use various vi editing and navigation commands
while in this mode, which is useful.

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