cvs commit: src/release/scripts print-cdrom-packages.sh

Gary Jennejohn garyj at jennejohn.org
Thu Dec 4 15:59:13 PST 2003


"Brian F. Feldman" writes:
> Andreas Klemm <andreas at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> > BTW, robert, if you already think of terms to "waste" time
> > for loadable editor modules ... the only thing I'm really
> > missing in standard vi is an extended command line with
> > - history function
> > - save history and
> > - editable like everything other compiled and linked with readline lib.
> > 
> > That would be a great change to nvi, that brings the most important
> > user friendlyness, that really would be a big win ...
> 
> I like that idea a lot.  I already use vi keys for my ksh command line 
> editing, so if I could get the same kind of thing in my v... err....
> 
> I don't think it would be exactly the most trivial thing to give nvi 
> vi-command-history, but it's certainly worth doing.  It doesn't use 
> -ledit or -lreadline, though I _imagine_ it wouldn't be hard to make just 
> ":" do that, but history would be more difficult again if you want to 
> support multiple windows in nvi with different history.
> 

(x)vile already has functionality to edit thiings like search patterns
and file names (using the arrow keys to move around). It also keeps
track of quite a few of the last search patterns and allows scrolling
through them using the arrow keys.

I'm not aware of any way to save history, though.

It also doesn't keep a history of the last commands entered AFAIK.
But then, there's always ``.''.

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Gary Jennejohn / garyj[at]jennejohn.org gj[at]freebsd.org gj[at]denx.de



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