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command line editing in CSH shell

R.SRIDHAR — Mon, 02 May 2011 20:47:15 GMT

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

Re: command line editing in CSH shell

James R. Ferguson — Mon, 02 May 2011 20:55:51 GMT

HI;

Begin by not using the C-shell. See:

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

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: command line editing in CSH shell

Peter Nikitka — Tue, 03 May 2011 06:56:29 GMT

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

Re: command line editing in CSH shell

Ismail Azad — Tue, 03 May 2011 07:26:16 GMT

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

Re: command line editing in CSH shell

Dennis Handly — Wed, 04 May 2011 18:38:22 GMT

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.