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From: wohlenbe@enuxha.eas.asu.edu (Gregory S. Wohlenberg)
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Subject: Re: Miscellaneous questions
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In article <6554@brazos.Rice.edu>, wohlenbe@enuxha.eas.asu.edu (Gregory S. Wohlenberg) writes:

> 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.
> 
> 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.

Thanks to everyone who responded.

Regarding question 1, there were a number of possibilities mentioned.
GNU emacs -- most votes, can't beat the price, large executable
Epoch -- available from cs.uiuc.edu
Jove -- no information

Regarding question 3, a number of people mentioned shells that can do the job.
ksh  -- no information, but you can get it free from the net somewhere
tcsh -- available from tut.cis.ohio-state.edu
        (I checked this one out.  It does work, but I've been having problems 
         getting it to behave under Sunview.)
bash -- available from the Free Software Foundation / prep.ai.mit.edu

Also, there is a commercial product called VCL from Boston Business Computing
than apparently emulates DEC's DCL interpreter (with command recall).

Greg Wohlenberg    wohlenbe@enuxha.eas.asu.edu
                   Arizona State University