Re: coupla things

Jason Marshall (marshalj@spots.ab.ca)
Fri, 6 Dec 1996 20:18:47 -0700 (MST)

> Also, let me preface this by admitting openly that it's propably a
> pathetic waste of coding time in light of everything else Livingston has
> to do, but I would sure love to see the feature added in the ComOS that
> allows you to hit the up arrow to repeat the last command you typed. My
> guess is that others would agree with me. Just a thought, no need to get
> nasty...

I disagree 100%. The concept is sound, but the up-arrow method is all
wrong. Something like ^P, ^N, ^F, ^B, ^A, ^E (previous, next, forward,
backward, beginning of line, end of line) like the bash command-line
editor uses, would be easier to code, and quite standard across platforms.

Someone mentioned before the lack of true standards for arrow-keys; he or
she was quite right.

!! is ok, but if would be nicer if there were a history function, and some
of those funky ^old^new editing functions to go along with it, if the
control-key idea can't fly.

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