Re: an editable history for every stdin

From: Stephane CHAZELAS (stephane_chazelas_at_yahoo.fr)
Date: 09/15/03 

Date: 15 Sep 2003 13:21:41 GMT

Pat LaVarre wrote:
> How do I make stdin editable and recall its history, when I discover
> some unfriendly interactive program reads command lines from stdin
> without helping me edit or recall those lines?

Look at what zsh did with nslookup.

Get zsh 4.1, issue

autoload nslookup
nslookup

functions nslookup
for the details. You can easily adapt it for any command. 

-- 
Stéphane

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