This is a minor suggestion but wouldn't be hard to implement (and shouldn't 
have any negative consequences?)

In jconsole and jhs the Up/Down arrows cycle backwards/forwards through the 
Command history (sensible)

In jgtk and jwd the Up/Down arrows move the cursor up and down through the 
Session history (sensible), to cycle backwards and forwards through the Command 
history Ctrl+Shift+up/down arrows are used (fine).

It would make switching between JFEs easier to have some keyboard shortcut 
standardization between JFEs. It wouldn't be sensible/desirable (because of the 
different UI paradigms) to have either current method become the "standard" way 
of cycling backwards/forwards through Command history. What would be possible 
though, is for Ctrl+Shift+Up/Down arrows to work on jhs and jconsole *in 
addition* to the bare up/down arrows.

The only potentially negative consequence I can see is that the 
Ctrl+Shift+Up/Down arrows will not be available for some other function on jhs 
or jconsole however, unless that other function was compelling, it would 
probably be undesirable to create additional differences in the JFE UIs anyway.

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