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From: gww@aphasia.UUCP (George Williams)
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Subject: Re(n): Very smart terminaks
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Date: Wed, 31-Dec-69 18:59:59 EDT
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Posted: Wed Dec 31 18:59:59 1969
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> Hmph.

Well I seem to have been a bit hasty in my `Hmph', but one point I have not
seen answered is: the commands I give to one program don't look much like the
commands to another (ie history from my text editor is not likely to be useful
for csh (these being the two programs I tend to interact with most)).  The nice
thing about keeping history in csh is that I can see the last 200 commands
without having to look at the last 500 pages of editing. This is very useful.
Much more useful (I would think) than the occasional need to get something
out of my editing session.

Also terminals tend to have limited memory (even 68k terminals with hard disks
will be hard pressed to keep around enough text to store the last 200 csh
commands).

On the rare occasions when I startup csh on a pty in my editor, I find I tend
to uses csh's history rather than moving around in the window. Fewer keystrokes
are involved (perhaps this is a comment on my editor, but I don't think so).

Anyway the gist of this is I want history from different programs separate,
I want a mechanism that is at least as terse as csh.

			    George Williams
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