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Subject: Re: VMS utilities (command line editing)
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Date: 10 Apr 89 18:47:11 GMT
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If you use Emacs, you can run a command-line-driven program like a shell
or dbx in an Emacs "interactive process" window.  In UniPress Emacs
(which is available as an option from SGI) these windows behave just like
a dumb terminal (erase, kill, etc. work) except that you can recall
and edit previous command lines, and all sorts of other things.
GnuEmacs probably does this too, or can be hacked to do so.
And you can use the arrow keys, too :-).

Mike Gallaher
UniPress Software