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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Recalling Commands in Unix?
Message-ID: <11883@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 5 Jan 90 02:53:08 GMT
References: <5141@blake.acs.washington.edu>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <5141@blake.acs.washington.edu> gnat@blake.acs.washington.edu (Laura Frazier) writes:
>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?

There are several "Tenex-like" shells available, including both Cshell
and Bourne shell variants.  A few input line-editing "wrapper" utilities
have also been posted in the past; they have the advantage that they
work with applications, not just at shell command level.  Then there
are terminals like the one I'm typing on (AT&T model 630) that support
various forms of mouse-driven text editing IN THE TERMINAL and thus make
it available even with non-UNIX systems.