aglew@mcdurb.Urbana.Gould.COM (03/18/89)
For almost three years now I have been using an adaptation of GNU EMACS' shell mode with multiple named shells (so that I can just switch windows when I would otherwise use job control) and a built in history mechanism. I have been negligent in getting these extensions back to the FSF and, when I saw the post from the guy from Ardent who had almost the same functionality, I decided not to bother. If you can't find the other extensions, give me a yell (hell, I probably have some on a tape somewhere). Maybe this weekend I'll sit down and figure out what to keep and what to throw away. Side comment: System V would be intolerable without multiple windows. With windowing, System V and KSH are almost as pleasant as BSD (except for 14 char filenames and no symlinks). Andy "Krazy" Glew aglew@urbana.mcd.mot.com uunet!uiucdcs!mcdurb!aglew Motorola Microcomputer Division, Champaign-Urbana Design Center 1101 E. University, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA. My opinions are my own, and are not the opinions of my employer, or any other organisation. I indicate my company only so that the reader may account for any possible bias I may have towards our products.