dosedit style command edit in UNIX?

Thomas R. Statnick trs at gibbs.physics.purdue.edu
Fri Apr 12 04:12:08 AEST 1991


In article <1991Apr10.212905.2234 at cimcor.mn.org> dick at cimcor.mn.org (Dick Schlotfeldt) writes:
>The MS-DOS public domain TSR 'dosedit' keeps a circular
>[more stuff excluded...]
>
>Is UNIX so sophisticated that no one has been able to implement
>such a simple-minded utility? 

  Well, there are two shells that support this sort of history and
command line editing, namely, Ohio State "tcsh" (which is a set of patches
that you apply to "csh" source), and GNU "bash"....  There are probably
more shells out there that do this sort of thing, but these 2 shells
come to mind...

   trs




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