Re: RAID (was: Is VMS losing the Financial Sector, also?)

On Jul 9, 2:17 pm, Ron Johnson <ron.l.john...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
On 07/09/07 10:45, AEF wrote:

On Jul 9, 11:26 am, Ron Johnson <ron.l.john...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
On 07/09/07 09:13, AEF wrote:
[snip]

The only OSes I know that lets you delete to the right are MS-DOS and
VOS. But MS-DOS won't let you delete words and VOS won't let you
delete words to the left while VMS lets you delete words to the left.
Well, in Unix if you're using the Korn shell you can "recall" a
command and edit it with vi commands.
In addition to the "normal" PC editing control at the bash command
line (both at the console and in xterms), and ^W to delete previous
word, it. lets you do command editing in vi- or emacs-mode.

What is "normal PC editing control"?

Having the grey <Insert>, <Delete>, <Home> & <End> keys act like,
well, act like they've acted on PC operating systems since the
AT-keyboard was introduced.

Doesn't work on mine (SunOS 5.8). When I press any of those keys I get
a ~.

That may seem a flippant answer, but it's all I can think to say.

^W -- cool!

And ^U deletes to BOL.

Yes, I knew that. And ^E goes to end of line. Both just like VMS!!!

And did you know that at the *console*, Shift-PgUp and Shift-PgDn
give you history just like a GUI scroll bar? Only 4 screen, though.

No, I did not know this. Thanks.


How do you do vi-editing in a bash command?

$ set -o vi

Oh, I see it's not the default like it is with Korn. ... OK.


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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
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AEF

"The sooner you fall behind, the more time you have to catch up!"

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