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From: dce@smsc.sony.com (David Elliott)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Recalling Commands in Unix?
Message-ID: <1990Jan2.045422.5112@smsc.sony.com>
Date: 2 Jan 90 04:54:22 GMT
References: <5141@blake.acs.washington.edu> <524@oglvee.UUCP>
Reply-To: dce@Sony.COM (David Elliott)
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In article <524@oglvee.UUCP> norm@oglvee.UUCP (Norman Joseph) writes:
>From article <5141@blake.acs.washington.edu>, by gnat@blake.acs.washington.edu (Laura Frazier):
>> Is there any command in Unix comparable to  ^B in VMS that will allow me
>> to recall previous commands instead of typing them repeatedly?
>> 
>> Are there likewise commands like ^J , ^A, etc., that will edit
>> commands once I recall them?
<mentions ksh and csh>

In addition, don't count out ile, fep, reactivekb, and bash.

ile is a line-editor front-end written by Bob Pendleton.  It works in
the shell, or any time the tty is in canonical mode.

fep is a similar item to ile.  I forget the author's name, but I believe
it was someone from Japan.

reactivekb from Mark James et al is an AI keyboard input analyzer/guesser
(well, it's really more than that) with a line editor built in.

bash is the GNU Bourne-Again Shell from Brian Fox et al, and is an
extended shell (a la ksh) with a line editor and csh style history.

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