history tricks...

[Stan Dutler]

>From article <945 at cmx.npac.syr.edu>, by gefuchs at wotan.uucp (Gill E. Fuchs):

>    2 -   if #1 works, how about defining something which will not
>          require a <ret> (ala up arrow in vms) to retrieve the last
>          command.   On the other hand, once i have the last command
>          up, i want to change a character and only then unleash it
>          with the appropriate <ret>
> 

Sounds like you could use the history mechanism in ksh. It does all
of the above and more. It even works better than command editing
in VMS (I have used both).