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From: ebh@argon.UUCP (Ed Horch)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: Bourne Again Shell?
Message-ID: <534@argon.UUCP>
Date: 17 Mar 89 21:55:49 GMT
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Reply-To: ebh@argon.UUCP (Ed Horch)
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In article <10659@stb.UUCP> michael@stb.UUCP (Michael) writes:
>Now, my turn: How do you combine multiple commands in the KSH history
>mode? 

I don't know about vi mode, but in emacs mode it works exactly as 
you expect.  Suppose you have "foo" and "bar" in your history file,
and you want to make "foo | bar".  Here's how you do it (pretend
that _ is the cursor):

     TYPE                SEE              COMMENT
  ^Rfoo<cr>            $ foo_             finds foo
  ^A                   $ _foo             cursor is on top of 'f'
  ^K                   $ _                put "foo" in kill buffer
  ^Rbar<cr>            $ bar_             finds bar
  ^A                   $ _bar             cursor is on top of 'b'
  ^Y                   $ foo_bar          yank "foo" from kill buffer
  <sp>|<sp>            $ foo | _bar       insert the rest; you're done

-Ed

Will the world *ever* decide what ^T should do?