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

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2012-08-16 00:22, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> 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...

Maybe I should clarify that by "quick search and recall" I did not mean 
execution time to do the actual search, but how quick and convenient it 
is to access for a user. As such, typing whole commands, perhaps several 
commands, to do it, makes it cumbersome compared to just pressing a key 
or two, and have the whole process done for you in the current command line.

	Johnny