Re: early reaction(s) to rc

[Boyd Roberts <boyd@prl.dec.com>]

I should add that in this multi-window, multi-machine scenario I have here
I use one history file, with a tail -f in a 10 line xterm & my original
version of history.c.  My history file is:

    -rw--w--w-  1 boyd        87763 Aug 27 12:22 .h

And things aren't so slow:

    prl313 ; grep -n the-first-line .h
    1:the-first-line
    9494:grep -n the-first-line .h
    prl313 ; time : the-first-line
    the-first-line
    the-first-line: No such file or directory
            0.4 real         0.2 user         0.1 sys

I use : as my history char, as they do in Plan 9, and my :.c doesn't care
about how big anything is.  I'll get `panic: out of swap' before it'll
miss a long ago typed command of some ridiculous length.  But don't
talk to me about tab deletions in the edit phase -- gag! :-(