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

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In article <k0l2uc$6oe$2 at Iltempo.Update.UU.SE>, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> writes:
>On 2012-08-17 10:01, Paul Sture wrote:
>> On Thu, 16 Aug 2012 00:43:02 +0200, Johnny Billquist wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> You could assign "RECALL /SEARCH" to a function key using "DEFINE /KEY".
>>
>> However "HELP DEFINE/KEY PARAMETERS" shows you are a bit limited in the
>> keys you can use here.
>
>How would you give the arguments to the recall/search if you bound it to 
>a key? Or would that just be used as a shortcut for typing the letters?
>
>I strongly suspect it still falls seriously short.

What arguments???

vaxman at Satellite:~$ echo $SHELL
/bin/bash
vaxman at Satellite:~$ ^R
(reverse-i-search)`': 


I get prompted.

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