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From: jjd@ALEXANDER.BBN.COM (James J Dempsey)
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Subject: Re: another History suggestion
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Date: 14 Sep 89 23:13:12 GMT
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>> From: "TYNOR,STEPHEN D." <prism!tynor@gatech.edu>

>> In the spirit of recent postings suggesting that certain items be left
>> off the history stack (via string length or pattern match), I'd like
>> to suggest that a line not be pushed onto the stack if it is identical
>> to the previous command (this makes ^R, ^S searches more reasonable).

I think this is an excellent idea.  The Symbolics command processor
uses this approach and I like it a lot.  If you do 10 "ps" commands in
a row you don't have to ^P 10 times to get to the command before that.

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