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Subject: [9fans] Newbie questions on command history and typo correction
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Date: 19 May 2002 09:54:36 -0000

OK, I know that rio is (deliberately) not cursor-friendly, and I will defer judgment on this until I have given rio a fair trial.  But here are two questions for the time being:

1. Many UNIX shells allow the user to access the command history, using the up/down cursor keys.  Is there any way to get the command history in a Plan 9 rc shell, other than the obvious method of scrolling up to the previous command input line, selecting the input by clicking and dragging mouse button 1, then choosing "send" with mouse button 2 (using 'Esc' if the command needs to be edited before execution)?  This method is particularly inconvenient if the earlier commands have produced a lot of output.

2. When typing, I notice that I have made an error.  In UNIX I can use the left/right cursor keys to return to the typo, without losing the subsequent text.  In Plan 9, I need to use the mouse to move the text insertion point.  Is there any other way to do this?

My vice is that I like to avoid switching between the keyboard and mouse.  When entering text, I find it convenient to have keyboard shortcuts for common operations.

Re: [9fans] Newbie questions on command history and typo correction

[Dean Prichard]

On 19 May 2002, kjn9@citizenearth.com wrote:
>Is there any way to get the command history in a Plan 9 rc shell
>
Russ has a couple of nice scripts on his web page for this. take
a look at:

http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~rsc/"
http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~rsc/""

-dp

[9fans] Another Newbie question !

[Ganesh Kumar]

Hi,
 I am a newbie to Plan9.When I created the boot disk and started
downloading,the download stops at 99% ( I use windows) and says insert a
disk of higher capacity.

I used a Phillips 1.44 MB disk.But it say only 1.30MB found.

Is it possible to use a splitter and split the file? If I do that,how do I
boot from that ?

regards
Ganesh Kumar

Re: [9fans] Another Newbie question !

[William Josephson]

On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 02:56:19AM -0500, Ganesh Kumar wrote:
>  I am a newbie to Plan9.When I created the boot disk and started
> downloading,the download stops at 99% ( I use windows) and says insert a
> disk of higher capacity.

Are you using rawrite or something similar to copy the disk image?
You can't just copy the file to a FAT-formatted disk.

> I used a Phillips 1.44 MB disk.But it say only 1.30MB found.

> Is it possible to use a splitter and split the file? If I do that,how do I
> boot from that ?

You don't want to do that ;-)

Re: [9fans] Another Newbie question !

[Ganesh Kumar]

>
> Are you using rawrite or something similar to copy the disk image?
> You can't just copy the file to a FAT-formatted disk.

 Oh I see. I just downloaded directly to FAT formatted disk.(IBM
Pre-formatted).Let me try with rawrite.thanks :)


Ganesh Kumar

Re: [9fans] Newbie questions on command history and typo correction

[andrey mirtchovski]

this is a topic often discussed in 9fans. in short -- get used to it (most of us have
and have no complaints).

for the long answer you may want to check the archives. you'll find a script or
two that give you some similar capabilities to bash' 'history', a prolonged and thorough
flamewar on how faster using the mouse is, some editor preferences and so on...

my personal opinion -- i've gotten used to the p9 way so much i actually find vi and
the unix shell slower..

some others (hi, dean:) have moved all the text editing to p9 -- importing unix files
via u9fs and editing them with acme.

if you can be converted to the p9 way, i'd say you need no more than a week or two to
get used to it. considerably less than the time needed to master vi...