dosedit style command edit in UNIX?
Rick Kelly
rmk at rmkhome.UUCP
Mon Apr 15 17:06:00 AEST 1991
In article <1991Apr10.212905.2234 at cimcor.mn.org> dick at cimcor.mn.org (Dick Schlotfeldt) writes:
>The MS-DOS public domain TSR 'dosedit' keeps a circular
>stack of recently executed commands. The user may retrieve the
>most recent command with a single keystroke (up-arrow), next
>most recent with an additional keystroke, etc. The user may also
>edit a selected command with simple cursor motion and overtype
>or character insertion.
>
>Is UNIX so sophisticated that no one has been able to implement
>such a simple-minded utility?
You could try ksh. It has full command line editing with ^p to retrieve the
last command line executed. It also has ^rstring to search for commands in
the history file.
Rick Kelly rmk at rmkhome.UUCP frog!rmkhome!rmk rmk at frog.UUCP
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