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- Path: sparky!uunet!shady!kevin
- From: kevin@shady.UUCP (Kevin Smith)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
- Subject: Re: Re. AIX Function Equivalent To VM's "RETRIEVE" Function Re: AIX Function Equivalent To VM's "RETRIEVE" Function
- Message-ID: <109@shady.UUCP>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 04:34:45 GMT
- References: <19930126.010847.96@almaden.ibm.com>
- Organization: ShadeTree Software, Inc.
- Lines: 31
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- In article <19930126.010847.96@almaden.ibm.com> kraemerf@franvm3.VNET.IBM.COM writes:
- :>Ron Wigmore <SYST8103@RyeVm.Ryerson.Ca> writes:
- :>
- :>>On a VM system we can set up a PFkey to recall any commands just
- :>>entered *AND* modify them. AIX's 'history function' only lets me
- :>>re-issue commands just entered *unmodified*.
- :>
- :>Try,
- :>
- :>$ set -o emacs # for emacs command line editing
- :>
- :> use <Ctrl-p> # retrieve the last line
- :> use <Ctrl-b> # move one character backwards
- :> use <Ctrl-f> # move one character forwards
- :> use <Ctrl-d> # delete one character
- :> use <Ctrl-a> # move cursor to the first character
- :> use <Ctrl-e> # move cursor to end of line
- :> use <......> #
- :>
- :>$ set -o vi # for vi style command line editing
- :>
- :> <try yourself>
- :>
- :>-frank-
-
- Don't forget... in vi mode anyway, use 'v' to vi the command.
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