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Re: tcsh in the future - what should it be like?

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From: Rich Salz
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 16:32
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In <1992Jul31.010903*Harald.Eikrem@delab.sintef.no> Harald.Eikrem@delab.sintef.no writes:
>! if after doing this 30 times, the last 100 entries in your history are
>! the same three commands over and over, what if you then want to do
>
>Have you ever seen a windowing environment?

If "history" were kept as an external file to which the shell appended,
you could use standard Unix utilities on it.  Many shells work this
way (ksh, bash, rc to name three (and omit others)).

Hacking [t]csh to use a real file-based history would be a lot of work,
but it could be done.

(On the other hand, I really wish someone would implement my proposed
/dev/mem hacker that would go in and change someone else's history...)
	/r$
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Subject: Re: tcsh in the future - what should it be like?
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