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Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Recalling Commands in Unix?
Summary: ksh allows history and command line editing
Message-ID: <982@spocm2.UUCP>
Date: 8 Jan 90 22:22:16 GMT
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Organization: Philips TDS, Stockholm, Sweden
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] Satam> On ULTRIX, a new "csh" is provided. It allows browsing thru'
] Satam> commands like VMS using up-down arrow keys. Once the command is
] Satam> recalled, it can be edited using "vi" like commands i.e. 'x'
] Satam> for delete, 'i' for insert etc.
] 
] Satam> But, I am not aware of any other shell on any other UNIX doing
] Satam> such things.
] 
] tcsh, available at most of the major FTP sites, provides you with
] command line editing with Emacs commands as well as the arrow keys,
] plus adds ALOT more to basic csh.  It can be compiled to work with
] most of the major flavors of Unix and csh.
] 
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And for those of us who dislike the csh syntax, there is the ksh (Korn shell)
which gives you a command history plus command line editing (Emacs-style or
vi style), while preserving the standard Bourne shell syntax. 
I first started using it at AT&T many years ago and I have seen it 
advertised in Byte magazine now and then, but can't recall the name of 
the company that markets it.

Leo Vermeulen               Philips TDS, Stockholm, Sweden
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