[ale] i hate csh

[hirsch at zapmedia.com]

John Wells writes:
 > 
 > Not to mention that if you find a command in your
 > history under ksh and need to make quite a few
 > changes, you can hit esc and then type vi, which opens
 > that command in vi and allows you to edit it.  Then,
 > just :wq to execute.  Now that's functionality.

If you are forced to use csh, can you cheat and use tcsh?  That has a
usable command-line history editor and is rought csh compatible.

Another option might be zsh.  IIRC, it can be made fairly csh
compatible with the I_AM_A_CSH_WEENIE environment variable.  I kid you
not, that is it's name.  :-)

--Michael

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