Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ogicse!uwm.edu!rpi!netserv2!deven From: deven@rpi.edu (Deven T. Corzine) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Handlers (AUX: users should try ComMan 1.3's CNX:serial.device!) Message-ID: Date: 13 Apr 90 09:24:45 GMT References: <1990Apr11.151918.3110@cat.fulcrum.bt.co.uk> <3244@moondance.cs.uq.oz.au> Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY Lines: 44 In-Reply-To: thyssen@batserver.cs.uq.oz.au's message of 13 Apr 90 00:33:23 GMT In article I write: Deven> For anyone not familiar with ConMan, the input editing is Deven> similar to that of C-A's NEWCON: handler, except that it is far Deven> more flexible and powerful than the C-A handler, and I think it Deven> may even be smaller. [or I could be thinking of ASH, the ARP Deven> shell, compared to AmigaShell -- ASH is smaller and much Deven> better...] On 13 Apr 90 00:33:23 GMT, thyssen@batserver.cs.uq.oz.au (Anthony Thyssen) said: Anthony> I am currently useing the NEWCON: handler for my console Anthony> input But I also have ConMan's PIP: device to do the piping Anthony> in the ARP ASH I would like to use ConMan for the console as Anthony> well (to save the memory used by NEWCON: ) by I ABSOULUTELY Anthony> CAN NOT STAND conman's history list I don't mind the idea of Anthony> only one copy of repeated commands in the history list - Anthony> prefer it in fact. But I must have the last command I execute Anthony> as the last command on the history list. This conman does not Anthony> do. Well, PIP: is another alternate name for ConMan, as is CNX:... I can see your problem with the history, but I don't find it critical. I suppose it could move the command to the bottom of the history list, but then it's missing from the sequence above. What I do when I want to force the command I'm repeating to the bottom of the list is just hit space and backspace, which modifies the line, so it's not considered the same line. That's a workaround, but it works okay. On the other hand, I believe there is a "true history" option on ConMan; check the doc file... Anthony> Can anyone help? Has anyone got the conman source? Does Anthony> anyone have just the PIP: handler from conman? Well, Bill Hawes has the source, of course. :-) Deven -- Deven T. Corzine Internet: deven@rpi.edu, shadow@pawl.rpi.edu Snail: 2151 12th St. Apt. 4, Troy, NY 12180 Phone: (518) 274-0327 Bitnet: deven@rpitsmts, userfxb6@rpitsmts UUCP: uunet!rpi!deven Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.