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From: romero@mind.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: IBM new 'standard'
Message-ID: <659@mind.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 2-Apr-87 23:56:16 EST
Article-I.D.: mind.659
Posted: Thu Apr  2 23:56:16 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 4-Apr-87 19:37:23 EST
References: <1010@rpics.RPI.EDU> <3320008@hpsrlc.HP.COM>
Organization: Cognitive Science, Princeton University
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Summary: CED-type functions? Try ksh

In article <3320008@hpsrlc.HP.COM>, darrylo@hpsrlc.HP.COM (Darryl Okahata) writes:
> In article <855@bucsb.bu.edu.UUCP> madd@bucsb.bu.edu.UUCP
> (Jim "Jack" Frost) writes:
> 
> ... and I've only seen VAX VMS with a CED-like feature.
> 
> For those of you who don't know, CED is a memory resident program
> that gives the PC an alias and keyboard stack features.  If you want
> to execute/edit a previous command, you simply use the up/down arrow keys to
> dynamically display the command and use the left/right arrow keys
> and the insert/delete keys to edit.  The alias feature is just that:
> you can define aliases consisting of one or more commands.

Sounds like you've  got ksh-envy.  
ksh, or the Korn-shell, is a version of the shell compatible with the
Bourne shell and available on the majority of the System V machines 
I've seen, as well as some of the 4.2BSD machines.  It includes 
functions like aliases and command history editing, with the full 
set of emacs or vi commands available for your editing pleasure.

One of the nice things about Unix is that you get to put any shell you
can come up with on it... if you so hate the features you're given,
write a new one yourself... :-)
(although wouldn't changing command.com on your PC's do same thing?)
-Antonio Romero   princeton!mind!romero
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