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From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: UNIX equivalent to DOSEDIT ??
Message-ID: <1712@sixhub.UUCP>
Date: 13 Sep 90 00:17:29 GMT
References: <1990Sep11.230946.23611@midway.uchicago.edu>
Reply-To: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: *IX Public Access UNIX, Schenectady NY
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In article <1990Sep11.230946.23611@midway.uchicago.edu> phd_jacquier@gsbacd.uchicago writes:

| Why is there not a simple way to recall, edit and reissue old commands
| like in DOS with dosedit or scrollrecall, or in VMS ?

  There are several solutions. Perhaps the best is Korn shell, which has
emacs, gemacs, or vi style editing of the recent command lines. There
are also a couple of programs which run using the "line discipline" hook
to provide editing. Sorry I don't remember details on this one.
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