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Article #592Re: another History suggestion
From: James J Dempsey
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 1989 23:13
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 1989 23:13
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>> From: "TYNOR,STEPHEN D." <prism!tynor@gatech.edu>
>> In the spirit of recent postings suggesting that certain items be left
>> off the history stack (via string length or pattern match), I'd like
>> to suggest that a line not be pushed onto the stack if it is identical
>> to the previous command (this makes ^R, ^S searches more reasonable).
I think this is an excellent idea. The Symbolics command processor
uses this approach and I like it a lot. If you do 10 "ps" commands in
a row you don't have to ^P 10 times to get to the command before that.
--Jim Dempsey--
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ALEXANDER.BBN.COM!jjd From: jjd@ALEXANDER.BBN.COM (James J Dempsey) Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug Subject: Re: another History suggestion Message-ID: <8909142328.AA08921@life.ai.mit.edu> Date: 14 Sep 89 23:13:12 GMT References: <1847@hydra.gatech.EDU> Sender: daemon@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Distribution: gnu Organization: GNUs Not Usenet Lines: 15