Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 08:32:53 -0500 (CDT) From: David Scheidt <dscheidt@enteract.com> To: Dominic Mitchell <Dom.Mitchell@palmerharvey.co.uk> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What to tell to Linux-centric people?! Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96.990727082355.69885D-100000@shell-1.enteract.com> In-Reply-To: <19990727141955.A66937@voodoo.pandhm.co.uk>
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On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Dominic Mitchell wrote: > It has completion, it's just not as convenient as it could be... > > As to ! history, 1) Why do you want this foul abomination? and 2) Look > at ksh's "fc" cmd and it's "r" alias. Quite handy, although probably not The lack of !$ and its friends drive me bonkers. I have been known to drive people looking over my shoulder bonkers by typing screenfulls of nothing but history operations. > as powerful as csh's history. Of course you've got interactive history, > so it doesn't need to be. Interactive history implies typing! Unnecessary keystrokes are evil! David Scheidt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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