When I first switched to OpenBSD, I thought this would be a huge problem, but I got used to it in a week or two.
Like someone else said, I just use CTRL-A to go back to the start of the line. On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 4:39 PM, <vadi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm considering migrating my desktop from Linux to OpenBSD but the > main feature that > kept me away from *BSD world for over a decade since I've first tried > FreeBSD was the > one that options must only be specified after command before any > arguments. (At least > that is true for basic commands). For example on Linux a command > > ls -l foo -h > > will print the foo's size with suffix (K, M, G, etc.). On *BSD > (including Mac OS X) I get error > message: > > ls: -h: No such file or directory > > Is there an easy way to get the desired behavior on OpenBSD? If that > can only be achieved > by patching system's sources is there a standard way to maintain my > personal set of > patches so that they will be automatically applied every time I upgrade system? > > Best regards, > Vadim.
