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- From: trillium!bamcpherson@math.waterloo.edu (Brent McPherson)
- Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc
- Subject: v01i061: commando, command line editor v1.0
- Date: 17 Dec 88 03:43:43 GMT
- Summary: commando.arc, command line editor v1.0
- Approved: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP
-
- Posting-number: Volume 01 Issue 061
- Originally-from: trillium!bamcpherson@math.waterloo.edu (Brent McPherson)
- Submitted-by: trillium!bamcpherson@math.waterloo.edu (Brent McPherson)
- Archive-name: commando/commando.uue
-
- Here it is! Commando, my ultimate command line editor. Not being able
- to find a command line editor with all the features I wanted, I wrote
- my own. Commando is a TSR written in C. It uses BIOS and DOS level
- interrupts and should work on most MSDOS machines. (DOS 2.x or greater
- I think.) This program may be distributed free of charge. It has a
- lot of neat features and many more are planned. Any new ideas or
- suggestions are welcome. Enjoy!
-
- [
- Features include command line editing, recall of previous commands,
- filename completion and wildcard expansion on the command line,
- multiple commands on a line, function key binding, aliases with
- optional parameter substitution, ability to not save commands shorter
- than a user-specified number of characters, and a few other minor
- configuration options.
-
- Commando seems to have most of the features of both CED and Anarkey
- (which was posted in this newsgroup recently) but not all of them and
- not in the same way. Its ability to expand wildcards to a list of
- names might be useful when running C programs ported from UNIX, since
- these usually accept a list of filenames but don't do any wildcard
- expansion. Commando has aliases, which CED does but Anarkey doesn't.
- (But Anarkey lets you edit paths and environment variables, and Commando
- doesn't.) Neither Anarkey nor Commando has CED's "pcall" variables,
- i.e., commands that, once typed with arguments, will have their
- arguments filled in the next time you just type the command without any
- arguments. Only Commando lets you define function keys. CED allows
- comments and empty lines in its alias initialization file while
- Commando doesn't.
-
- Commando was also not able to detect a second attempt to load it if
- something else had been made resident in between. Under the same
- conditions both CED and Anarkey refused to load themselves twice.
-
- Any nitpicking is being done solely as part of my job as moderator, and
- not because I see any glaring faults. It's a well-done program.
-
- The copyright statement doesn't mention any distribution policy. Since
- the author sent it here Usenet distribution is assumed OK, and no money
- is requested, so it's a "free" program.
-
- -- R.D.
- ]
-