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[Andreas Jaeger <aj@xxxxxxx>]

Nico Sabbi <Nicola.Sabbi@xxxxxxxx> writes:

> Hi,
> wandering through countless distributions I'd never seen this most
> hideous handling of the bash history: in OpenSuse when you 
> select a previous command with the up-arrow key, then modify it
> in some manner and run it  this last command is forgotten.
> If you press once again the up-arrow key the command you see is 
> not the last you ran, but the one before it.
> Is there any setting I can use to restore the only sane behaviour?

I'm not sure I follow you (or I have old settings):
$ ls -A
[...]
up-arrow, edit it to use:
$ ls -Af
[...]
$ history |tail
1010  ls -a
1011  ls -af
...

So, this works as expected for me...

Andreas
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