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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: vms vs unix
Message-ID: <5876@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: Thu, 21-May-87 05:16:23 EDT
Article-I.D.: brl-smok.5876
Posted: Thu May 21 05:16:23 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 23-May-87 01:14:04 EDT
References: <7494@brl-adm.ARPA>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <7494@brl-adm.ARPA> SULLIVAN%suny-bing.csnet@RELAY.CS.NET writes:
>Regardless of limits on the number of commands remembered, the command
>editing facility of vms (invoked with up-arrow) is one of the few things
>really nice about vms.  Shell-writers' alert!  such a facility would be a
>very fine addition to unix.

This feature has been available for UNIX shells for some time.
There is even a general command-line editing front-end for
more-or-less arbitrary programs available from the AT&T UNIX
System ToolChest (be warned that it has control characters
embedded in the source code).  BRL's enhanced SVR2 Bourne shell
(the one with job control) now supports command history and
EMACS-style editing.