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Article #1530Re: Questions about rewriting the History function.
From: Tom Christiansen
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 1990 15:07
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 1990 15:07
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In article <1990Oct21.010205.24695@cbnewsh.att.com> wcs@cbnewsh.att.com (Bill Stewart 201-949-0705 erebus.att.com!wcs) writes: >The old Bourne shell (/bin/sh) doesn't do history. >The C shell does, with the ugly !! command-based interface. >The Korn shell (ksh) does history, stores it in a file, and gives > you an editor-interface as well as a command-based interface. >Various intellectual derivatives like BASH and tcsh are similar. >The 9th edition shell gave you something lean, mean, and clean, as always. >The adventure shell doesn't have history, but it has xyzzy. :-) I want *both* real history editing, as in ksh's real vi mode and not tcsh's abortion of the same, as well as expression history (!f:s/x/b), which may be ugly, but is quite convenient. But ksh won't do asynch job notification, key rebinding, or spelling correction, so I'm stuck with an abomination of a shell. --tom
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!convex!convex.COM From: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell,comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: Questions about rewriting the History function. Message-ID: <107567@convex.convex.com> Date: 23 Oct 90 15:07:24 GMT References: <1990Oct19.165721.7584@polyof.poly.edu> <1990Oct21.010205.24695@cbnewsh.att.com> Sender: news@convex.com Reply-To: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) Followup-To: comp.unix.shell Organization: CONVEX Software Development, Richardson, TX Lines: 16