Re: Questions about rewriting the History function.

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From: Shiping Zhang
Date: Sun, 21 Oct 1990 20:19

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In article <1990Oct19.170143.7674@polyof.poly.edu> mhoffman@george.poly.edu writes:
>	I am working on a senior project to rewrite the history function for    UNIX.  My goal is to have the new history functon work like it does in MS_DOS.
>i.e. I want to be able to call up past commands and edit them by using the 
>control <hjkl> characters.  Additionally, I would like to write this as a stand alone program so that I do not have to rewrite the shell.


We have a shell script which lets you edit history commands
before they are reexecuted.
-ping

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From: ping@cubmol.bio.columbia.edu (Shiping Zhang)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.internals
Subject: Re: Questions about rewriting the History function.
Message-ID: <1990Oct21.201922.896@cubmol.bio.columbia.edu>
Date: 21 Oct 90 20:19:22 GMT
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