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- From: smr@iti.org (Stephen Riehm)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
- Subject: Re: tcsh in the future - what should it be like?
- Message-ID: <smr.712419130@hitkw14>
- Date: 29 Jul 92 14:12:10 GMT
- References: <yeates.711122638@beryl17> <1992Jul16.153506.24366@bmerh85.bnr.ca> <1992Jul27.031238.10376@chpc.utexas.edu> <1992Jul27.215202*Harald.Eikrem@delab.sintef.no>
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- Harald.Eikrem@delab.sintef.no writes:
-
- >! I'd like to see a history mechanism that works like VMS' RECALL, i.e.
- >! type something like !vi .cs and get the last vi command that edits
- >! .cshrc. Simple, powerful concept; only a single command to learn.
-
- >It's there. You just need to try.
-
- care to enlighten us?? or are you still telling failed entrepreneurs
- that there is a pot of gold at the end of every rainbow?
-
- >! Also, the history list should save a command only if it is different
- >! from the last one.
-
- >No way. You will be able to reach the next *different* command in the
-
- DISAGREE!
- if you are developing something, and you get into a debug mode, the
- usual sequence of commands goes something like:
- edit
- compile
- run ( or debug )
- edit
- compile
- ... ( ad infinitum )
-
- if after doing this 30 times, the last 100 entries in your history are
- the same three commands over and over, what if you then want to do
- that really complicated sequence of commands which sets up a real
- input file for this program, which has just been booted out of the
- history list because you filled it up with the same commands repeated
- n times. since most people I know ( myself EXcluded ) seem to have
- histories of 50 commands, it doesn't give you much of a 'history' does
- it? ( my history sits at around 250 at the moment, there are times
- when I really want to boot it up to 500 too! )
-
- Also, I would really love a 'merge_histories' feature, this is relevant
- only if you have many tcsh's running at the same time, because when I
- quit my XWindows session, by dumb luck or whatever, the last tcsh to
- save the history seems to be the one I used the least, with all the
- most boring, and least used commands in the history, any solutions?
- anyone come up with some sort of .logout hack?
-
- >! If both these questions have solutions already it only shows that tcsh
- >! has too many features. I can't remember them so I don't use them.
-
- >You have probably never made the attempt to find out.
-
- it has been scientifically proven that the human mind can only comfortably
- cope with between 5 and 7 things at one time ( under good stress free
- situations, add stress it goes down to about .5 ), this being the case,
- it is not a simply matter of reading the tcsh manual to find all the
- features, I have read it many times, and i still find new things every
- time, such is the price for not having hard disks in our heads!
-
- catchya
-
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- Stephen Riehm smr@pki-nbg.philips.de
- PS: I know my From: line is wrong, but I don't know WHY!
- "I used to be apathetic, but now i just don't care anymore" - me
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