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

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2012-08-17 13:50, VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
> 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.

And RECALL /SEARCH expects an argument... That was the argument I was 
referring to. No point in talking about how other shells work when we 
are talking about how to possibly modify DCL, is there...?

(In tcsh you type some letters, and then press M-P or M-N...)

	Johnny