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From: grunau_b@husc4.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: DOS line editing
Message-ID: <1183@husc6.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 6-Feb-87 15:28:19 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb  6 15:28:19 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 7-Feb-87 20:03:43 EST
References: <307@cognos.UUCP> <267@skatter.UUCP> <725@bucsb.bu.edu.UUCP>
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Reply-To: grunau_b@husc4.UUCP (Justin J. M. Grunau)
Organization: Harvard Science Center
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Keywords: DOS, Line editing

In article <725@bucsb.bu.edu.UUCP> madd@bucsb.bu.edu.UUCP (Jim "Jack" Frost) writes:
>In article <267@skatter.UUCP> kuo@skatter.UUCP (Dr. Peter Kuo) writes:
>>In article <307@cognos.UUCP>, brianc@cognos.UUCP (Brian Campbell) writes:
>>> 
>>>      I've got a question concerning some of the line editing provided by
>>> MS-DOS/PC-DOS. 
>>> 
>>> [some text deleted]
>>>
>>>      Thanks.
>>
>>I have ctrl-u on my DOS 3.1 but not on the DOS 2.1 I was using before!
>
>DOS 3.1 and 3.2 have ^U and ^W as they work in UNIX.
. . .
>domain (or maybe shareware -- I haven't had it installed on my system,
>so I forget).  The only thing annoying about CED is that is does NOT
>support ^U/^W deletes.  But since it DOS support the cursor keys, that's
>fine.  Along with it's other features, it's a great program.
>
. . .
>                   - Jim Frost * The Madd Hacker -
>UUCP:  ..!harvard!bu-cs!bucsb!madd | ARPANET: madd@bucsb.bu.edu
>CSNET: madd%bucsb@bu-cs            | BITNET:  cscc71c@bostonu
. . .

Anyway, at work we have a nice little terminate-and-stay-resident program
called dosedit, that implements a nice quasi-history feature much nicer than
IBM's hideous Function-key thing.  It allows you to use the up and down arrow
keys to step through all the commands you have done, and then re-execute or
edit them.  It also actually erases your line when you hit ESC instead of
printing a slash and line feed (shades of tty).  It uses ESC and control-left-
arrow and control-right-arrow for ^U and moving left/right one word.

									JJMG
grunau@husc4.UUCP

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