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I had tried that, but apparently pdksh there is no history command: 'history' is just an alias for 'fc -l'

So you're saying the "real" ksh has 'history' command with these flags? Nice! I'm...

Thanks, bakunin. I'm new to the Korn shell, so had no idea about these nuances. I see that ksh93 is in the OpenBSD package repository, so I'll install it and see how it's different from pdksh.
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Hi, bakunin. I'm finding that it is not so simple. If I have ksh running in a terminal emulator and manually edit the history file while the emulator is running, lines that I add to the HISTFILE will...

Thank you, Jim, that is a useful alias but not what I'm looking for. I'll try to explain it differently:

When I'm working, I often have multiple terminal emulators open at once. If I pick any one...

I did try searching, but no luck. I guess nobody using ksh as their interactive shell is as lazy as I am.

Hopefully one of the ksh experts will get back to me after holidays. In the meantime,...

I'm basically looking for the ksh equivalent of bash's PROMPT_COMMAND="history -r", where simply redrawing the command prompt in a terminal will cause ksh to reload the history file.

At the risk...