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- From: mcbryde@navier.math.uh.edu (Jack Mcbryde)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
- Subject: Re: AIX Function Equivalent To VM's "RETRIEVE" Function
- Date: 26 Jan 1993 16:11:46 GMT
- Organization: UH Dept of Math
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- In article <93025.145117SYST8103@RyeVm.Ryerson.Ca> Ron Wigmore <SYST8103@RyeVm.Ryerson.Ca> writes:
- >
- >Is there a way of having AIX (or an xstation) put the entire contents
- >of the command just entered back onto the command line *AND* then let
- >me change it slightly. It would have to allow for 'backspacing' and
- >'forwardspacing' over the contents of the command line without having
- >what is already there deleted or blanked out.
-
- Well, as of this posting I've seen four responses of 'set -o vi'/'set -o emacs'.
- These both work for ksh. Each requires nasty contortions to do simple things.
-
- My favorite solution is to run tcsh (infinitely superior as a user interface:-).
- Then you have a VMS-style line editor. You use the up/down cursor keys to scoll
- through old commands, and the left/right keys to move around within a command.
- None of this strange <esc> <was it the j or the k?> (and god forbid that you
- hit a cursor key!) ...
-
- jack
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- * Christ died for our sins. Dare we * Is to be a drinker and fornicator
- * make his martyrdom meaningless by * An unbeliever and a sodomite
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