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From: wohlenbe@enuxha.eas.asu.edu (Gregory S. Wohlenberg)
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Subject: Miscellaneous questions
Keywords: Miscellaneous
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I have a few miscellaneous questions for anyone out there that may have
some information.

1. What are some of the better editors for coding that are available for
   the Suns (specifically the Sun-4)? I'd like to find something that is
   modifiable and supports language-sensitive features.  VI and textedit are
   not candidates.

[[Gnu-emacs? (Available by FTP from prep.ai.mit.edu). -bdg]]

2. Is Sun planning on shipping Open Look standard with SunOS eventually?
   It doesn't seem like something that should be an extra-cost add on.

3. As a former VMS user, I'm still looking for some way to implement the
   up-arrow (command recall) feature in SunOS. By using the "^" and "!"
   commands you can get the job done but it doesn't compare in convenience
   sometimes when you just want to delete a garbage character you
   accidentally threw on to the last command.

[[Some shells support recall/edit of previous command lines, I _think_ 
ksh is one of these. -bdg]]

Thanks,
Greg Wohlenberg    wohlenbe@enuxha.eas.asu.edu