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Article #1054Re: UNIX equivalent to DOSEDIT ??
From: Wm E. Davidsen Jr
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 1990 00:17
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 1990 00:17
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In article <1990Sep11.230946.23611@midway.uchicago.edu> phd_jacquier@gsbacd.uchicago writes:
| Why is there not a simple way to recall, edit and reissue old commands
| like in DOS with dosedit or scrollrecall, or in VMS ?
There are several solutions. Perhaps the best is Korn shell, which has
emacs, gemacs, or vi style editing of the recent command lines. There
are also a couple of programs which run using the "line discipline" hook
to provide editing. Sorry I don't remember details on this one.
--
bill davidsen - davidsen@sixhub.uucp (uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!know!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr) Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell Subject: Re: UNIX equivalent to DOSEDIT ?? Message-ID: <1712@sixhub.UUCP> Date: 13 Sep 90 00:17:29 GMT References: <1990Sep11.230946.23611@midway.uchicago.edu> Reply-To: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen) Organization: *IX Public Access UNIX, Schenectady NY Lines: 14