Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!snorkelwacker!think!samsung!cs.utexas.edu!rice!brazos.rice.edu!schafer
From: schafer@brazos.rice.edu (Richard A. Schafer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2
Subject: Re: Editing Command prompt
Message-ID: <6618@brazos.Rice.edu>
Date: 12 Apr 90 16:03:03 GMT
References: <6291@star.cs.vu.nl>
Sender: root@rice.edu
Reply-To: schafer@brazos.rice.edu (Richard A. Schafer)
Organization: Rice University, Houtson, Texas
Lines: 15


In article <6291@star.cs.vu.nl>, mabdoor@cs.vu.nl (Doorn van MAB) writes:
|> Hello world!
|> 
|> I'm looking for a program to simplify editing while using the OS/2 command
|> prompt.
|> 
|> Normally the keys F1, F2 and F3 can be used to copy previous commands and
|> re-execute them. But it's not bloody likely.
|> 
|> Is there a program available to simplify this process?
If you're running release 1.2, then the RETRIEVE feature (optionally
added in at install time) allows you to do command editing using the
arror keys.  Up-arrow moves you back in the command history, and left/right
arrows can be used to move around on the line then make changes as desired.