[Info-vax] DCL, was: Re: Microkernel

Johnny Billquist bqt at softjar.se
Wed Aug 15 18:22:13 EDT 2012


On 2012-08-15 22:36, VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
> In article <k0gu8p$sdn$1 at Iltempo.Update.UU.SE>, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> writes:
>> On 2012-08-15 14:36, Craig A. Berry wrote:
>>> In article <k0d5ug$dpv$1 at Iltempo.Update.UU.SE>,
>>>    Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> As for saving and retrieving the command history between sessions - it's
>>>> pretty much only useful if you also have a usable way of quickly search
>>>> and recall commands from the history.
>>>
>>> You mean like RECALL/SEARCH.
>>>
>>> $ help recall/search
>>>
>>> RECALL
>>>
>>>     /SEARCH
>>>
>>>           /SEARCH string
>>>
>>>        Searches the recall buffer and displays all the commands (and
>>>        their numbers) that contain the specified search string.
>>
>> That is not my definition of quick search and recall... Which was my point.
>
> It seems pretty quick here.

Compare that to something like M-P i tcsh or ^R in bash... Which is 
typed interactively at the terminal, and for which you get the result 
immediately, and can continue and edit the line right away...

	Johnny




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