command line editing in CSH shell

[R.SRIDHAR]

Hi
Can any help me on how to do command line edit in CSH shell

[James R. Ferguson]

HI;

Begin by not using the C-shell. See:

http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/shell/csh-whynot/

Regards!

...JRF...

[Peter Nikitka]

Hi,

the old pure/poor CSH does not contain such a feature.
Use the tcsh instead:

http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Shells/tcsh-6.14.06/

Per default you can use emacs shortcuts; you can use vi-style edit mode after
setenv TSC_KEYBINDING vi

mfG Peter

[Ismail Azad]

Hi Sridhar,

Well --command line editting-- and --restricted shells-- are said to be two features not supported on C which are supported on POSIX. Well command line editting is typically not a feature of a C shell.

Regards
Ismail Azad

[Dennis Handly]

Stay away, far away from the scummy C shell. The lack of editing on the command line soured me forever on csh.

Unless you use tcsh, csh has only sed style editing of the previous commands. And people usually give up and use cut&paste for corrections.