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- From: rsalz@osf.org (Rich Salz)
- Subject: Re: tcsh in the future - what should it be like?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul31.163227.11680@osf.org>
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- Organization: Open Software Foundation
- References: <1992Jul27.215202*Harald.Eikrem@delab.sintef.no> <smr.712419130@hitkw14> <1992Jul31.010903*Harald.Eikrem@delab.sintef.no>
- Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 16:32:27 GMT
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- In <1992Jul31.010903*Harald.Eikrem@delab.sintef.no> Harald.Eikrem@delab.sintef.no writes:
- >! 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
- >
- >Have you ever seen a windowing environment?
-
- If "history" were kept as an external file to which the shell appended,
- you could use standard Unix utilities on it. Many shells work this
- way (ksh, bash, rc to name three (and omit others)).
-
- Hacking [t]csh to use a real file-based history would be a lot of work,
- but it could be done.
-
- (On the other hand, I really wish someone would implement my proposed
- /dev/mem hacker that would go in and change someone else's history...)
- /r$
-