Recalling Commands in Unix?

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <5141 at blake.acs.washington.edu> gnat at blake.acs.washington.edu (Laura Frazier) writes:
>Is there any command in Unix comparable to  ^B in VMS that will allow me
>to recall previous commands instead of typing them repeatedly?
>Are there likewise commands like ^J , ^A, etc., that will edit
>commands once I recall them?

There are several "Tenex-like" shells available, including both Cshell
and Bourne shell variants.  A few input line-editing "wrapper" utilities
have also been posted in the past; they have the advantage that they
work with applications, not just at shell command level.  Then there
are terminals like the one I'm typing on (AT&T model 630) that support
various forms of mouse-driven text editing IN THE TERMINAL and thus make
it available even with non-UNIX systems.