Re: ksh93 and its history are in wrong order

On Sat, 9 May 2026, [email protected] wrote:

> I don't understand why the history file does the following
> after growing above 9:
>
> 1       startx
> 10      r cvs
> 11      r -5
> 12      set
> 13      man ksh93
> 14      man -k ksh93
> 15      cat /usr/pkg/etc/ksh93/kshrc
> 16      fc -l 1
> 17      r 13
> 18      hist -l
> 19      hist -l 1
> 2       history 1
> [...]
> 9       ! -3
>

PR pkg/60245

> Also, I can't repeat a command by doing for example r 29.
> It will just list my history again.
>

From the ksh93 man-page:

 	The following aliases are automatically preset when the shell is
 	invoked as an interactive shell.  Preset aliases can be unset or
 	redefined.
 		history=′hist -l′
 		r=′hist -s′

The `r' alias is defined differently in the system /bin/ksh. Again from the
ksh(1) man-page:

 	The following command aliases are defined automatically by the shell:
 		[...]
 		r='fc -e -'

-RVP