dosedit style command edit in UNIX?

[Rick Kelly]

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
>stack of recently executed commands. The user may retrieve the
>most recent command with a single keystroke (up-arrow), next
>most recent with an additional keystroke, etc. The user may also
>edit a selected command with simple cursor motion and overtype
>or character insertion.
>
>Is UNIX so sophisticated that no one has been able to implement
>such a simple-minded utility? 


You could try ksh.  It has full command line editing with ^p to retrieve the
last command line executed.  It also has ^rstring to search for commands in
the history file.


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