Date: Thu, 6 Feb 1997 08:47:33 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: "Chris A. Triebel" <cat AT sun4 DOT iol DOT unh DOT edu>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: A thanks and a question
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On Wed, 5 Feb 1997, Chris A. Triebel wrote:

> Quick question.  I have found all the ^? commands that allow you to move 
> up and down the history list.  Is it possible to map these commands to 
> the arrow keys.  Another thing is that the command line is not editable 
> even on the first time it is entered.  I have to backspace over 
> everything or use fc if it is in the history list.  Can this be altered 
> or is it built into bash to remain that way?

If arrow keys in your version of bash don't work, get a newer port.  This 
feature has been introduced in the latest releases.  An announcement of 
the latest release was posted to this news group about a week ago.

> I just noticed that the bash that is on our systems at work don't have 
> these problems. 

Are those Unix systems?  If so, then arrow keys there work differently: 
they actually produce streams of ASCII keys, whereas on MSDOS these keys 
don't have ASCII codes at all.