Thank you, Bill Joy!

[Ray Lubinsky]

In article <2323 at munnari.oz>, kre at munnari.oz (Robert Elz) writes:
> What is needed is a way to do
> 
> 	ls /a >/tmp/file
> 	ls /b | comm - !$
> or
> 	echo old*
> 	rm !$
> 
> neither of which will do anything like what you want if you replace
> csh with ksh and !$ with $_

Jeez!  Use the bleeding edit mode in Korn shell!

Using vi-style command line editing I can modify previous commands like you've
shown in at least the amount of time you can do it with csh's !$ construct AND
I get the visual reassurance of seeing what the newly-edited command is really
going to be.

Csh history editing mechanism is a pitiful kludge compared to actually EDITING
your past commands.  (I cut my teeth on csh so its not that I haven't seen
both sides of the UNIX shell fence.)  Hunt-and-peck typists need not apply.

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