From owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 4 15:59:13 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E69A16A4CE; Thu, 4 Dec 2003 15:59:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from peedub.jennejohn.org (p213.54.255.239.tisdip.tiscali.de [213.54.255.239]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48BEB43FA3; Thu, 4 Dec 2003 15:59:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from garyj@jennejohn.org) Received: from peedub.jennejohn.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by peedub.jennejohn.org (8.12.10/8.11.6) with ESMTP id hB4Nx0FI005943; Fri, 5 Dec 2003 00:59:01 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from garyj@peedub.jennejohn.org) Message-Id: <200312042359.hB4Nx0FI005943@peedub.jennejohn.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.6.3 04/04/2003 with nmh-1.0.4 To: "Brian F. Feldman" In-Reply-To: Message from "Brian F. Feldman" <200312041943.hB4JhK6I007082@green.bikeshed.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2003 00:59:00 +0100 From: Gary Jennejohn cc: Alexey Dokuchaev cc: src-committers@FreeBSD.org cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org cc: Andreas Klemm cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/release/scripts print-cdrom-packages.sh X-BeenThere: cvs-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the entire tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2003 23:59:13 -0000 "Brian F. Feldman" writes: > Andreas Klemm 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