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From: chris@umcp-cs.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: shell preprocessor for history & alias
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Date: Fri, 4-Jan-85 19:27:49 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan  4 19:27:49 1985
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Reply-To: chris@maryland.UUCP (Chris Torek)
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Hmmm....  a "history preprocessor"...

Well, to get around the pipes problem, you could always use ptys (does
System V *have* ptys?).  But I wonder what exactly "history" means in
a program like VI or Emacs.  If you take the C shell history mechanism
(please! :-) ) as your base idea, then you have "lines" of stuff with
a "redo this line with the following changes" command, which doesn't
seem to be too useful with screen editors.
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