[Info-vax] RECALL command

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2023-06-23 kl. 19:38, skrev Chris Townley:
> On 23/06/2023 18:28, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> On 2023-06-23, Chris Townley <news at cct-net.co.uk> wrote:
>>> Possibly with a bit of guesswork, or by looking at the contents.
>>> Personally I want to be able to search for a command I previously used,
>>> as I have done for years with *nix, so actually it doesn't really matter
>>> which it was.
>>>
>>
>> With bash, it's much cleaner however, and I wish DCL had a bash-style
>> incremental search facility.
>>
>> On Linux, I run with a command history buffer of 5,000 commands which
>> means all the regular commands never expire (both daily and across
>> multiple active projects), while allowing all the one-off junk to
>> eventually drop out of the command history buffer automatically.
>>
>> One problem with your approach is that you will be saving all the
>> one-off junk as well as the commands you really want to save.
>>
>> Simon.
>>
> 
> No problem with that. Just a load of files to GREP/SEARCH for that
> stupidly complex that you worked out a few days/months ago!

Those commands should be in a COM file anyway.