From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from inet-gw-1.pa.dec.com ([16.1.0.22]) by archone.tamu.edu with SMTP id <22533>; Tue, 27 Aug 1991 05:34:21 -0500 Received: by inet-gw-1.pa.dec.com; id AA24602; Tue, 27 Aug 91 03:33:45 -0700 Received: by prl313.prl.dec.com (5.61++prl/27-May-90); id AA19581; Tue, 27 Aug 91 12:33:34 +0200 (MET) From: Boyd Roberts Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1991 05:22:19 -0500 To: rc@archone.tamu.edu Subject: Re: early reaction(s) to rc In-Reply-To: <9108270624.AA21539@adobe.com> Message-Id: <9108271222.19535.rc.bagaz@prl.dec.com> X-Face: #"03$i1:"_[Hbg~GCPw}`+d4_R`}RaDfYixB`n-mCB0E8m#tNd>uyd[d)`nEix7Bys(:o#o2y7$(=,&BTXdH7)Hm5jP}H5:y]}0GT4?uTT(Y0(Cu7tWBXj\|q\@jZ8 Y_qn8)NV0*$uO][i7p"K2>Kg( 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! :-(