I updated world yesterday, and discovered that bash functionality was severly degraded on my machine. No up-arrow to scroll through history, no tab-completion, etc, etc. A bit of Google searching turned up the fact that bash no-longer uses an internal "readline" library, but now depends on the "readline" USE flag for this functionality. If you don't have "readline" globally enabled set...
app-shells/bash readline ...in package.use. -- Walter Dnes <[email protected]> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

