Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!cmcl2!husc6!sri-unix!ctnews!pyramid!decwrl!labrea!goose!conor From: conor@goose.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: shell-util.el Message-ID: <33@goose.UUCP> Date: Fri, 4-Dec-87 20:00:46 EST Article-I.D.: goose.33 Posted: Fri Dec 4 20:00:46 1987 Date-Received: Wed, 9-Dec-87 20:02:37 EST References: <32@goose.UUCP> Reply-To: conor@dutch-goose.stanford.edu (Conor S. Rafferty) Organization: Integrated Circuits Lab. Stanford University Lines: 33 Keywords: syntactic sugar 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"