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From: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: dosedit style command edit in UNIX?
Message-ID: <9104142148.20@rmkhome.UUCP>
Date: 15 Apr 91 07:06:00 GMT
References: <1991Apr10.212905.2234@cimcor.mn.org>
Reply-To: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
Organization: The Man With Ten Cats
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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), next
>most recent with an additional keystroke, etc. The user may also
>edit a selected command with simple cursor motion and overtype
>or character insertion.
>
>Is UNIX so sophisticated that no one has been able to implement
>such a simple-minded utility? 


You could try ksh.  It has full command line editing with ^p to retrieve the
last command line executed.  It also has ^rstring to search for commands in
the history file.


Rick Kelly	rmk@rmkhome.UUCP	frog!rmkhome!rmk	rmk@frog.UUCP