what i want is to
1) capture this history of commands into a file,
2) something like pressing esc and - to screen through the list of commands.
3) do the above in csh, sh.

and i got the below

fc -l does gives the history of commands entered. but this set -o vi, doesnt work in csh, i got this set:syntax error from the system. according to the earlier posts, i did a man history, and it was only two pages with the description of what it does