On Fri, 11 May 2018, Richard Owlett wrote:
When I search man-pages.debian.org I get only a page in Chinese(?). The best hit I get doing a web search is [http://www.tldp.org/LDP/GNU-Linux-Tools-Summary/html/x1712.htm] There is a plethora questions/answers, but too narrowly focused. They do display it's potential power. Suggestions? TIA
Not sure what aspect you want to know more about, but doing $ man 3 readline # then search the text for "history" might be informative.