Useful csh alias and free csh bug
Andrew Draskoy
andrew at garfield.UUCP
Fri Mar 22 15:29:08 AEST 1985
Here is a useful csh alias which I use to edit my last command.
I'm posting it here since others have told me that they have also
found it useful.
alias ec source ~/bin/ec
where ~/bin/ec contains:
echo !-1:q > /tmp/ec$$
$EDITOR /tmp/ec$$
cat /tmp/ec$$
eval `cat /tmp/ec$$`
rm /tmp/ec$$
The bug is so minor that I'm not even going to try and fix it,
however I thought I'd mention it in case someone is making a list
(a very big list) of csh bugs.
If you use ec to change your command to "history", you get (for example):
history
189 set history=4
190 ls
191 ec
-1000 ls%
The % at the end is your next prompt. I have not been able to duplicate
this behavior in any other manner.
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Andrew Draskoy
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