wohlenbe@enuxha.eas.asu.edu (Gregory S. Wohlenberg) (04/11/90)
I have a few miscellaneous questions for anyone out there that may have some information. 1. What are some of the better editors for coding that are available for the Suns (specifically the Sun-4)? I'd like to find something that is modifiable and supports language-sensitive features. VI and textedit are not candidates. [[Gnu-emacs? (Available by FTP from prep.ai.mit.edu). -bdg]] 2. Is Sun planning on shipping Open Look standard with SunOS eventually? It doesn't seem like something that should be an extra-cost add on. 3. As a former VMS user, I'm still looking for some way to implement the up-arrow (command recall) feature in SunOS. By using the "^" and "!" commands you can get the job done but it doesn't compare in convenience sometimes when you just want to delete a garbage character you accidentally threw on to the last command. [[Some shells support recall/edit of previous command lines, I _think_ ksh is one of these. -bdg]] Thanks, Greg Wohlenberg wohlenbe@enuxha.eas.asu.edu
guy@auspex.com (Guy Harris) (04/12/90)
>3. As a former VMS user, I'm still looking for some way to implement the > up-arrow (command recall) feature in SunOS. By using the "^" and "!" > commands you can get the job done but it doesn't compare in convenience > sometimes when you just want to delete a garbage character you > accidentally threw on to the last command. > >[[Some shells support recall/edit of previous command lines, I _think_ >ksh is one of these. -bdg]] "ksh" is definitely one of them; it has both EMACS-like and "vi"-like editing modes. I think "tcsh", which is distributed in the form of patches to C shell source, is another. "bash", the Bourne-Again Shell, is another as well; it's a GNU program, and is Bourne shell compatible. Another alternative might be Ken Almquist's "atty", which is a user-mode tty driver that offers similar functionality; it runs a pseudo-tty and runs your program in that pseudo-tty. It's available in the "comp.sources.unix" archive.
wohlenbe@enuxha.eas.asu.edu (Gregory S. Wohlenberg) (04/13/90)
In article <6554@brazos.Rice.edu>, wohlenbe@enuxha.eas.asu.edu (Gregory S. Wohlenberg) writes: > 1. What are some of the better editors for coding that are available for > the Suns (specifically the Sun-4)? I'd like to find something that is > modifiable and supports language-sensitive features. VI and textedit are > not candidates. > > 3. As a former VMS user, I'm still looking for some way to implement the > up-arrow (command recall) feature in SunOS. By using the "^" and "!" > commands you can get the job done but it doesn't compare in convenience > sometimes when you just want to delete a garbage character you > accidentally threw on to the last command. Thanks to everyone who responded. Regarding question 1, there were a number of possibilities mentioned. GNU emacs -- most votes, can't beat the price, large executable Epoch -- available from cs.uiuc.edu Jove -- no information Regarding question 3, a number of people mentioned shells that can do the job. ksh -- no information, but you can get it free from the net somewhere tcsh -- available from tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (I checked this one out. It does work, but I've been having problems getting it to behave under Sunview.) bash -- available from the Free Software Foundation / prep.ai.mit.edu Also, there is a commercial product called VCL from Boston Business Computing than apparently emulates DEC's DCL interpreter (with command recall). Greg Wohlenberg wohlenbe@enuxha.eas.asu.edu Arizona State University