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From: mck@hpcuhc.HP.COM (Doug McKenzie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: CI.STK history function
Message-ID: <530006@hpcuhc.HP.COM>
Date: 21 Feb 90 20:45:51 GMT
References: <1990Feb19.235123.5458@sjuphil.uucp>
Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
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> / hpcuhc:comp.sys.hp / ryan@sjuphil.uucp (Patrick M. Ryan) /  3:51 pm  Feb 19, 1990 /
> I have never been overly thrilled with the history capabilities of any
> of the Un*x shells which I have used (csh, sh, ksh, tcsh, etc.).  One
> history command I do like, though, is the one in HP's RTE-A running
> on an HP 1000.  The way it works is this: Type '/' and the system
> will display the last 10 (or so) commands you have executed (in
> much the same way as csh's 'history').  One then simply moves the
> cursor up the list of commands and hits RETURN on the one he or
> she wishes to repeat.  The user also has the option, while perusing
> the list, of editing a command in wordprocessor-like fashion before
> executing it.  If the user types '//' instead of '/', just the last
> command is displayed.  Easy, no?
> 
> The reason for this post is to see if anyone has a neat hack by which
> I might emulate this RTE-A history capability in the Berkeley shell.
> Suggestions and partial solutions are welcome.


For what it's worth, here's an alias that will do what you want.
It was great, until I switched to the ksh.  I'm afraid I agree with
all Tor's comments in his response, too.

Note that ^[ is two chars here, but should be one (escape).

alias hi 'echo -n ^[J;h -h;set ss=$<;echo -n ^[R^[J^[A^[d^Q;unset ss;sleep 1'


Doug McKenzie
HP-UX Support
mck@hpcugsya.cup.hp.com