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From: mp1u+@andrew.cmu.edu (Michael Portuesi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Shell 2.08m??
Message-ID: <4VnVCPy00Xc2ods0-W@andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: 22 Dec 87 06:39:23 GMT
Organization: Carnegie Mellon University
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In-Reply-To: <1987Dec20.175713.7918@sq.uucp>



 hobie@sq.uucp (Hobie Orris) writes:

> Up in the top of my CLI window it says "AmigaDOS" in the title bar.
> I don't need to be reminded that I'm using an Amiga.  I think it
> would be much more useful to have the name of my current
> directory there, like "DH0:/src/widget" so I don't have to type in
> "pwd" to findout where I am.

A "CD" program to do exactly that just popped up on comp.binaries.amiga...you
could certainly use that with the existing shell.  Though this new CD sounds
really cool (finally, a use for the titlebar on a CLI window), I am loathe to
use it since on my one-drive system I make a large number of commands
RESIDENT, and thus am restricted to the AmigaDOS BCPL commands (no flames
about RESIDENT, please...I use it responsibly, have *never* had any problems
with it, and it makes life with one disk drive SO much easier).  Maybe when
the fairy godmother brings me a hard disk, and I actually have a place to put
the system software...

One thing the shell writers (or maybe the author of ConMan) might want to
consider...on the Andrew environment here at CMU, you talk to csh in a
"Typescript" window.  This window not only saves a transcript of your session
(you can scroll back over previous junk from your session with a scrollbar),
it also allows you to mouse off a section of text, select "Execute" from a
pop-up menu, and have it execute the selected region of text.  If you already
typed other text at the prompt before you moused off the text, Typescript
appends the moused-off text to the end of the string you typed and executes
the whole thing.  In addition, you can add your own menu selections to the
Typescript pop-up menus.  When you select that option, it types the string
associated with that menu option to csh.  Thus you can place your oft-used
commands in menus.

Adding options along these lines to a shell or ConMan-type console driver
might make for bloated software, but it is really nifty to use.

				--M


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