On Wed, 11 Jul 2007, david.allen.clark@gmail.com wrote:
> Command Line History is a big winner for me, and I really had to      
> dig in the man pages before I figured out how to enable this basic    
> feature. Actually, I would not go so far as to say "put 'set -o       
> emacs' or 'set -o vi'" in the skeleton '.profile'. I think it at      
> least deserved honorable mention in the wscons section of The Guide.  

We already have "set -o emacs" and "set -o tabcomplete" in /etc/shrc,
which is sourced by /etc/skel/.shrc.  Doesn't this work for you?

--apb (Alan Barrett)