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From: hansm@cs.kun.nl (Hans Mulder)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: Vi/Ex:  Editor command line editor?
Message-ID: <2797@wn1.sci.kun.nl>
Date: 27 Feb 91 10:53:25 GMT
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In article <5104@lure.latrobe.edu.au> ECSGRT@lure.latrobe.edu.au (GEOFFREY TOBIN, ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING) writes:
>  :.,.+3s/some long expression/another long expression/g...
>    OOPS!  I mistyped something.
>  u
>  :BORING REPETITION WITH A ONE-CHARACTER CORRECTION
>    OOPS!  I miscued again.  All this work for a once-only!
>  :AND SO ON
>
>Command line editing for ex?

Would be a great idea.  Definitely.

If you know in advance you are going to mistype that long expression,
you can fake it: you enter the line into your main edit buffer, and
execute it by saying "yY@y (and then you undo it, repair it, etc.).

But it would be much nicer if you could access previous : / and ! commands
with some sort of Korn shell style history mechanism.

>GT

Hans Mulder	hansm@cs.kun.nl