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From: brtmac@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu (Brett McCoy)
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Subject: Re: History - Re: dosedit style command edit in UNIX?
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Date: 13 Apr 91 00:47:10 GMT
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In <1991Apr12.223158.26584@cbnewsh.att.com> wcs@cbnewsh.att.com (Bill Stewart 908-949-0705 erebus.att.com!wcs) writes:

>In article <1991Apr10.212905.2234@cimcor.mn.org> dick@cimcor.mn.org (Dick Schlotfeldt) writes:
>] The MS-DOS public domain TSR 'dosedit' keeps a circular
>] stack of recently executed commands. The user may retrieve the
>] most recent command with a single keystroke (up-arrow), ....
>] Is UNIX so sophisticated that no one has been able to implement
>] such a simple-minded utility? 
>] No, no, no, .... not the flames!!  :-)

>If you've been reading the flames here recently, people have been
>talking about the best ways to do that sort of thing :-).
>There are half a dozen ways to do it, ranging from minimalist to
>feature-ridden, slow to fast, messy to clean.

[ Lot's of stuff deleted ]

Hasn't anyone hear heard of tcsh?  It has a command stack that is accessed
through the up and down arrow keys, as well as filename completion and emacs
style command line editing.  Very nice and very powerful and fully compatible
with csh.

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