Re^2: C Shell history, backprimes Q's -- Noddy Level

[Maarten Litmaath]

dg at lakart.UUCP (David Goodenough) writes:
\From article <2251 at solo8.cs.vu.nl>, by maart at cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath):
\> ian at hpopd.HP.COM (Ian Watson) writes:
\> \I've just entered a command 'foo bar parm', when what I wanted was
\> \'foobar parm'. ...
\> 
\> Welcome to csh! There's no way to achieve what you want :-(

\Actually there is.

I already posted another follow-up getting that straight: I should have said

	no way using the caret sign ^
Use
	!:0!*
instead.

[source of `redo' deleted]

How about the following? (Works with cshs without `source -h' too.)

: This is a shar archive.  Extract with sh, not csh.
: This archive ends with exit, so do not worry about trailing junk.
: --------------------------- cut here --------------------------
PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/ucb
echo Extracting 'cmde.c'
sed 's/^X//' > 'cmde.c' << '+ END-OF-FILE ''cmde.c'
X/*
X * To use this history command line editing facility, set the following alias:
X *
X *	alias	!	'cmde ~/.cmde ! && source ~/.cmde'
X *
X * (Put 'cmde' in your path.)
X * If your history character is some other character than '!', just change
X * EVERY occurrence of '!' into your char.
X * When you want to invoke 'cmde', just type '!' and hit return.
X * Now you can type the remaining characters to complete the history
X * reference, just as if you typed them adjacent to the '!', e.g.:
X *
X *	% !
X *	d
X * or
X *	% !
X *	?foo
X * or
X *	% !
X *	-3
X * or
X *	% !
X *	56
X *
X * Type '!' or just return to obtain the previous command, or ^D to quit the
X * editor. If you didn't quit, you'll end up in a 1 line vi editor; type 'ZZ'
X * or ':x' to end the editing.
X * Author: Maarten Litmaath @ VU Informatika Amsterdam (maart at cs.vu.nl)
X */
X
X#include	<stdio.h>
X
X
Xmain(argc, argv)
Xint	argc;
Xchar	**argv;
X{
X	FILE	*fp, *fopen();
X	char	h, *gets(), buf[512], *adjust(), *check();
X	int	c;
X
X
X	if (argc != 3 && argc != 4) {
X		fprintf(stderr, "Argc error.\n");
X		exit(1);
X	}
X
X	if (!(fp = fopen(argv[1], "w"))) {
X		perror(argv[1]);
X		exit(1);
X	}
X
X	h = *argv[2];
X
X	if (argc == 3) {			/* first pass */
X		if (!gets(buf))
X			exit(1);
X
X		fprintf(fp,
X		"echo \"%c%s:q\" | %s %s %c 2; ex +open %s; source %s\n",
X			h, !*buf || *buf == h ? "-2" :
X			*buf == '-' ? adjust(buf) :
X			*buf == '?' ? check(buf) : buf,
X			argv[0], argv[1], h, argv[1], argv[1]);
X
X		exit(0);
X	}
X
X	/* second pass */
X
X	while ((c = getchar()) != EOF) {
X		if (c == h) {
X			switch (c = getchar()) {
X				case ' ':
X				case '\t':
X				case '\n':
X				case '=':
X				case '(':
X					break;
X				default:
X					putc('\\', fp);
X			}
X			putc(h, fp);
X		}
X		putc(c, fp);
X	}
X
X	exit(0);
X}
X
X
Xchar	*adjust(s)
Xchar	*s;
X{
X	static	char	buf[8] = "-";
X	char	*sprintf();
X
X
X	if (*++s < '0' || *s > '9')
X		return --s;
X
X	(void) sprintf(buf + 1, "%d", atoi(s) + 1);
X
X	return buf;
X}
X
X
Xchar	*check(s)
Xregister char	*s;
X{
X	static	char	buf[32] = "?";
X	register char	*p = buf + 1;
X	char	*save = s++;
X
X
X	while (*p = *s++)
X		if (*p++ == '?')
X			return save;
X	*p++ = '?';
X	*p = '\0';
X	return buf;
X}
+ END-OF-FILE cmde.c
chmod 'u=rw,g=r,o=r' 'cmde.c'
set `wc -c 'cmde.c'`
count=$1
case $count in
2097)	:;;
*)	echo 'Bad character count in ''cmde.c' >&2
		echo 'Count should be 2097' >&2
esac
exit 0
-- 
 "If it isn't aesthetically pleasing, |Maarten Litmaath @ VU Amsterdam:
  it's probably wrong." (jim at bilpin). |maart at cs.vu.nl, mcvax!botter!maart