conor@goose.UUCP (12/05/87)
Due to brain leakage, I posted a shell utility package to
comp.windows.x instead of comp.emacs. Here's a duplicate of the description;
the lisp code can be found over there.
A new version of gnumacs just came up for me with a minimum of bother.
To express my gratitude :) I have collected a few little hacks I use
to make interaction with subshells more convenient. Particularly subshells
containing dbx. The first hack, called shell-repeat, takes an expression like
print pt[nd[0:2]->pt]->cord
and turns it into
print pt[nd[0]->pt]->cord; print pt[nd[1]->pt]->cord; print pt[nd[2]->pt]->cord
Vi lovers have said it's almost enough to convert them :-)
The second hack is called just-like-csh and does what you would expect.
!! repeats the previous command
!a repeats the previous command starting with an a
!?abc repeats the previous command containing abc
just-like-csh relies on shell and telnet windows copying user input
lines into a buffer called *history*. That requires a minor change
in both shell.el and telnet.el.
It has already been pointed out that just-like-csh is a misnomer,
since it doesn't try to get !$ or !-2. Call it sorta-kinda-like-csh if
you like :)
---
conor rafferty The command
conor@sierra.stanford.edu 1,$s/^\([^,]*\), *\(.*\)/\2 \1/
decwrl!glacier!conor@sierra although hard to read, does the job.
--- Brian W. Kernighan "Advanced Editing on Unix"