Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!burl!wrcola!kathy
From: kathy@wrcola.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: vms vs unix
Message-ID: <749@wrcola.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 28-May-87 14:22:51 EDT
Article-I.D.: wrcola.749
Posted: Thu May 28 14:22:51 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 30-May-87 07:59:03 EDT
References: <429@its63b.ed.ac.uk> <19625@sun.uucp>
Reply-To: kathy@wrcola.UUCP (K.M.Vincent)
Organization: AT&T, Winston-Salem, NC
Lines: 22

In article <19625@sun.uucp> guy%gorodish@Sun.COM (Guy Harris) writes:
>> [Disclaimer: I've never used ksh very seriously. Perhaps its not possible to
>> edit lots of lines at once - unless you start up a "real" editor]
>
>It's not.  That's why it doesn't need to know how to move the cursor
>up and down.

I'm coming in at the end of this discussion, so if someone else
has already said what I'm about to say, well ...

You *can* edit several lines at ones with ksh - sort of.  Go into
ksh edit mod by hitting the ESC key and then immediately hit
the 'v' key.  That puts you into vi, with the current command
in the file.  You can write a several-line ksh script and,
when you write and quit vi, the script is executed.


Kathy Vincent                           AT&T, Winston-Salem, NC
::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
AT&T:	{ihnp4|mtune|burl}!wrcola!kathy
        {ihnp4|mtune}!wruxh!unix
Home:	{ihnp4|mtune|ptsfa|codas}!bakerst!kathy