shell retrieve history (up arrow) not working

[Marty Landman]

Hey thanks, I added that line to my .profile and am in like Flynn now.

Marty

On 7/11/06, Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org> wrote:
>
> "Marty Landman" <martster at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > $ ^[[A^[[C^[[B^[[D
> >
> > when I press the arrow keys in order (up, right, down, left)
>
> They are using different shells.  Root uses csh by default, your user
> account is using sh.  Try "set -o emacs" for sh.  [Or try csh, but I
> try to avoid that because it's so bad as a scripting language.]
>



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