Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2003 00:59:00 +0100 From: Gary Jennejohn <garyj@jennejohn.org> To: "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/release/scripts print-cdrom-packages.sh Message-ID: <200312042359.hB4Nx0FI005943@peedub.jennejohn.org> In-Reply-To: Message from "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.org> <200312041943.hB4JhK6I007082@green.bikeshed.org>
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"Brian F. Feldman" writes: > Andreas Klemm <andreas@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 ``.''. --- Gary Jennejohn / garyj[at]jennejohn.org gj[at]freebsd.org gj[at]denx.de
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