Questions about rewriting the History function.

Shiping Zhang ping at cubmol.bio.columbia.edu
Mon Oct 22 06:19:22 AEST 1990


In article <1990Oct19.170143.7674 at polyof.poly.edu> mhoffman at 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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