Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1998 20:43:02 +0200 From: Johann Visagie <wjv@cityip.co.za> To: Chris Browning <brownicm@netunlimited.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Doskey Message-ID: <19980715204302.A17838@cityip.co.za> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.980715134631.brownicm@netunlimited.net>; from Chris Browning on Wed, Jul 15, 1998 at 01:46:31PM -0400 References: <XFMail.980715134631.brownicm@netunlimited.net>
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On Wed, 15 Jul 1998 at 13:46 SAT, Chris Browning wrote: > > Sorry all for the mystery mail. I'm still learning xfmail > apparently. Let's try again. I meant to say that MS Visual > FoxPro has what would appear to be the same thing as the F7 > in WinNT. It's a command line window. Looks like an xterm > with a history list but you can point and click to select > and hit enter to run previous commands. You can pick a 4DOS, an alternative shell (instead of COMMAND.COM) for MS-DOS and Windows systems, has the same feature. > previous and change an argument and run it. I've been > toying with writing the same for X as my first programming > project in X. History in csh beats doskey any day, but this > is better yet. Nothing like this out there, is there? Most shells have very complex history manipulation features. If you use bash, try "help history", or search the man page for "HISTORY". AFAIK, bash inherits most of its history features from csh, so most csh-like shells and derivatives will have similar mechanisms. Personally, I find csh-like history constructs like !!, !$, and ^..^.. much more convenient than any history window. But that's just me. :-) -- V Johann Visagie | Email: wjv@CityIP.co.za | Tel: +27 21 419-7878 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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