peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) (06/07/90)
In article <1990Jun6.104643.15176@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) writes: > Looking at the Amiga implementation, like looking at the choice of "#?" for > the wildcard "#?" is not a wildcard. AmigaDOS does not implement a wildcard. It implements regular expressions, which is a much more powerful tool than wildcards. > "Why did the > Amiga developers go to the time, trouble, and expense to design and > implement something poorly, when an example of how to do it much better was > conveniently at hand?" They didn't. They implemented something more powerful. -- _--_|\ Peter da Silva <peter@sugar.hackercorp.com>. / \ \_.--._/ My other car is a hot-air balloon. v "Have you hugged your wolf today?" `-_-'
koren@hpfelg.HP.COM (Steve Koren) (06/11/90)
> For those using System V, there's ksh, which supports vi and emacs line > I still await an Amiga shell that offers vi editing mode. Anyone know of > one? SKsh 1.5 will support both emacs and vi modes. It is actually even better than that; it will support binding any character or sequence of characters to any function or sequence of functions. Even things like different modes. You can emulate most any editor style with it. The release date depends on when my currently dead Amiga comes back to life again. - steve