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From: magnus%thep.lu.se@Urd.lth.se (Magnus Olsson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: dosedit style command edit in UNIX?
Message-ID: <1991Apr16.150649.28955@lth.se>
Date: 16 Apr 91 15:06:49 GMT
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In article <16509@chaph.usc.edu> jeenglis@alcor.usc.edu (Joe English) writes:
>dick@cimcor.mn.org (Dick Schlotfeldt) writes:
>>Is UNIX so sophisticated that no one has been able to implement
>>such a simple-minded utility? 
>
>The C shell has a similar feature, which is not exactly what
>you're looking for, but it's more powerful in many ways.  Run
>'man csh' and look for the 'HISTORY' section for more details.
>'tcsh' has exactly what you're looking for, in addition to csh's 
>added functionality.

ksh also has this feature, and under Ultrix version 4, /bin/csh has it as well
(though you have to press ESC to get into editing mode for some unknown reason).