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From: cthulhu@athena.mit.edu (Jim Reich)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Shell 2.08m??
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Date: 4 Jan 88 23:50:48 GMT
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Reply-To: cthulhu@athena.mit.edu (Jim Reich)
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Keywords: Shell cd rollback

>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),
There is a shareware program out there called "rollback" which does just
that.  It is even compatible with ConMan.  Takes some memory, but it can
be useful.  Unfortunately, it interacts with some background program on
my system disk which I've never bothered to track down, but it's worth a try.
>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.
This would definitely be worthwhile.  Anyone out there have some free time?

>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.

... and the mouse text selection wouldn't be THAT bloating for CON:.  Better
yet, it could be implemented through (gasp) the CLIPBOARD DEVICE!  Why does
almost nobody support the poor clipboard?  That's one thing I REALLY miss
from my Mac days, and with IFF, it shouldn't be THAT BAD...  Picture
pasting into the CLI, or from the CLI into a terminal program, or whatever!

							-- Jim