Thank you, Bill Joy!

[Rod Creason]

In article <2662 at uvacs.CS.VIRGINIA.EDU> rwl at uvacs.CS.VIRGINIA.EDU (Ray Lubinsky) writes:
>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.

I agree completely.  I used csh for many years until I was without and
had to use ksh.  Now that I have used the korn shell I will only use csh
when I must (at work we do not have ksh).  The editing capabilities are
wonderful (it even supports 'undo').


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Rod Creason,                    uucp:      ...!{ames,amdahl,pacbell}!unet!rodc
Advanced Development,           
Network Equipment Technologies