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From: dg@lakart.UUCP (David Goodenough)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: C Shell history, backprimes Q's -- Noddy Level
Message-ID: <487@lakart.UUCP>
Date: 10 Apr 89 16:27:25 GMT
References: <2251@solo8.cs.vu.nl>
Organization: Lakart Corporation, Newton, MA
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From article <2251@solo8.cs.vu.nl>, by maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath):
> ian@hpopd.HP.COM (Ian Watson) writes:
> \I've just entered a command 'foo bar parm', when what I wanted was
> \'foobar parm'. ...
> 
> Welcome to csh! There's no way to achieve what you want :-(

Actually there is.

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and 'alias r source redo' added to your favorite .cshrc work real nice.
Now, if someone can explain why this gets all bent out of shape with
aliases ......

(For the uninformed, typing 'r' puts you into redo, which allows sort
of ksh like editing)
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