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Actually, FreeBSD’s /bin/sh is not a POSIX sh. In some points, it even goes against what POSIX requires. If you compile mksh with the following options: -DMKSH_MIDNIGHTBSD01ASH_COMPAT (enable compatibility to MidnightBSD 0.1 ash (/bin/sh) when set -o sh is run) -DMKSH_BINSHREDUCED (imply set...

Alt-x as Meta is not supported, DutchDaemon: Meta-. yields ® really. Use Esc+x instead (note foo-bar = hold them together, foo+bar = press them in sequence notation). ^[x means Esc+x just as ^X means Ctrl-X – Ctrl-[ is ESC in ascii(7). Czesc vermaden, mksh feature requests (and support, I...

When you copy the dot.mkshrc sample file (ugh, the FreeBSD porters have colourised some parts of it?) to ~/.mkshrc then mksh will give you the username, hostname and current working directory before the $ (or #). You can of course write your own, it’s just a sample ;-) Colourising that...

It’s actually an almost-POSIX shell, not(!) a Bourne shell, with broken behaviour for "sh -c 'somescript' -- foo bar baz" which mksh can emulate when compiled with a specific option, -DMKSH_MIDNIGHTBSD01ASH_COMPAT, and then when either called with “-o sh” or as sh when compiled with...