Ars Technica article on FreeBSD new user experience
Enji Cooper
yaneurabeya at gmail.com
Wed Apr 15 20:35:21 UTC 2020
> On Apr 11, 2020, at 11:47 PM, Piotr P. Stefaniak <pstef at freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> 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.
That’s effectively what I said, but in different words.
Cheers,
-Enji
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