Ars Technica article on FreeBSD new user experience

[Piotr P. Stefaniak]

On 2020-04-11 14:32:36, Enji Cooper wrote:

>> Yeah, history isn't kept by default, not sure if there's an option to
>> keep it, if there is, I don't see it in the man page, and ctrl-r doesn't
>> work either.
>
>	There is history support, but it’s not on by default and it’s not spelled the same way as other shells (I don’t think it’s persistent between shell invocations, however):

But the commands history isn't persistent, is it? That together with
command completion (as opposed to file name completion, which is already
there) is very important to have, in my opinion.