Hmmm....if you were using the bash shell on a system that supports your arrow
keys (like Linux), you can just use the up arrow to flip therough your
previous commands and edit them with the left & right arrows.

-Pete
On November 21, 2001 12:54 pm, Shahan, Ray wrote:
> AAAAHHHHH!
>
> I found some reading in *man fc* because I wanted a better way to do edits
> on the command history in POSIX (you know, being used to that proprietary
> OS named MPE)...I ended up at *man ed*, and I just can't say enough about
> how impressed I am. Yes folks, ed is really something.
>
> I never thought I'd see the day that a line editor was so ^%$#@ bad, that
> it's easier to just retype the command line you wanted to edit (no matter
> how long or complicated the command line was, and no matter how many times
> it takes you to get it right) than to use the line editor.
>
> Still positive, and smiling real nicely.
>
> Ray S.
>
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