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Aucbvax.4057 fa.unix-wizards utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!unix-wizards Sat Sep 26 00:11:33 1981 changing history characters in csh >From cbosg!cbosgd!mark@Berkeley Fri Sep 25 23:57:09 1981 I've gotten a lot of requests for the method used to change your history characters in csh. Since it seems not to have made the 4.1BSD manual, let me mention briefly how it's done. The default characters are ! (for "get the history mechanism's attention") and "^" (for substitute.) To change them to, say, comma and semicolon, put unset histchars set histchars=',;' in your .cshrc. This does not affect the use of ^ to mean "first argument". Note that if you have aliases with ! in them, it will be necessary to change all the !'s to ,'s.

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