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Date:      Thu, 04 Dec 2003 14:43:20 -0500
From:      "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Andreas Klemm <andreas@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-src@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/release/scripts print-cdrom-packages.sh 
Message-ID:  <200312041943.hB4JhK6I007082@green.bikeshed.org>
In-Reply-To: Message from Andreas Klemm <andreas@FreeBSD.org>  <20031204192655.GA19989@titan.klemm.apsfilter.org> 

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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.

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