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| From | Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.os.linux.misc |
| Subject | Re: Shell command history (was: Useless Use Of Regexes) |
| Date | 2025-04-12 23:55 +0000 |
| Organization | Some absurd concept |
| Message-ID | <eli$2504121955@qaz.wtf> (permalink) |
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In comp.os.linux.misc, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Apr 2025 13:26:48 +0100, Geoff Clare wrote:
>> On 4/8/25 9:16 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>> Seems a bit dumb, having to go into insert mode every time you
>>> actually want to type a command.
>> That's not how it works.
>
> But that’s how the vi/vim editor family works. Are you saying that a
> command-line editor that is supposed to work like those editors doesn’t in
> fact, emulate them entirely faithfully?
It is not advertised as an "entirely faithfully" emulation. In fact, the
crappy vi-mode in early versions of bash is why I ended up preferring
ksh, which I still use to this day when available.
It is advertised as "vi-style command line editing interface" in recent
bash and readline man-pages, and "a vi style in-line editor" in ksh's
manpage. One of the key differences, which is very helpful for shell
usage, is every line starts in insert mode.
Other things missing from "vi-style" (or "vi style") are the : commands
and most multiline movement commands, eg H, L, M (, ), {, }, [[, ]], and
gg. But G does work to go to oldest item in history.
Elijah
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overall it works better than the vi included with busybox
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