From: chet.ramey@case.edu (Chet Ramey)
Subject: [TUHS] basic tools / Universal Unix
Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2017 20:05:14 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d5926b48-b8a1-5a9f-981e-896958708fb3@case.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201711012037.vA1KbgHZ008984@freefriends.org>
On 11/1/17 4:37 PM, arnold at skeeve.com wrote:
> Bakul Shah <bakul at bitblocks.com> wrote:
>
>> I think what Ralph wants is something like "LINES=1 vi"
>> but without clearing the screen so that commands that
>> are cursor relative can work. rlwrap and readline don't
>> edit the current line in the file, only the command input.
>
> OK, that I can understand. It's ages since I played with
> readline, but I think you can preload the buffer it works on
> (bash does that, no?) so ed + readline could be made to work
> that way.
Yes, you can set a startup hook to preload the buffer contents. Bash
uses that for `read -ei'.
--
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-11-02 0:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 90+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-10-30 14:16 Noel Chiappa
2017-10-30 14:40 ` Clem Cole
2017-10-30 15:23 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-10-30 20:56 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-10-31 10:50 ` Ronald Natalie
2017-11-01 3:23 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-11-01 13:25 ` Tim Bradshaw
2017-11-16 1:17 ` Dario Niedermann
2017-11-15 1:25 ` Nemo
2017-11-15 2:10 ` Will Senn
2017-11-15 2:16 ` Larry McVoy
2017-11-15 2:37 ` Warner Losh
2017-11-15 3:07 ` Will Senn
2017-11-15 16:13 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-11-15 16:23 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-11-15 16:48 ` Clem Cole
2017-11-15 18:13 ` Bakul Shah
2017-11-15 19:01 ` Clem Cole
2017-11-15 19:52 ` [TUHS] TECO was: " Arthur Krewat
2017-11-15 20:19 ` Clem Cole
2017-11-15 20:25 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-11-15 22:18 ` Ralph Corderoy
2017-11-15 22:42 ` [TUHS] :nohlsearch in vim Chris Torek
2017-11-16 2:44 ` Don Hopkins
2017-11-16 4:34 ` [TUHS] TECO was: Re: basic tools / Universal Unix Dave Horsfall
2017-11-16 4:36 ` Jim Capp
2017-11-16 8:42 ` Pete Turnbull
2017-11-18 14:39 ` Ralph Corderoy
2017-11-16 9:19 ` arnold
2017-11-16 21:59 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-11-16 22:58 ` Andy Kosela
2017-11-17 2:17 ` Steve Johnson
2017-11-17 2:38 ` George Michaelson
2017-11-17 3:56 ` Ian Zimmerman
2017-11-17 4:07 ` Steve Nickolas
2017-11-17 8:44 ` Michael Kjörling
2017-11-17 3:50 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2017-11-17 6:51 ` Andy Kosela
2017-11-17 1:18 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2017-11-16 0:29 ` Grant Taylor
2017-11-16 0:35 ` Grant Taylor
2017-11-16 0:52 ` Warner Losh
2017-11-16 9:29 ` [TUHS] TECO was: " Mutiny
2017-11-16 14:55 ` Clem Cole
2017-11-16 21:26 ` Random832
2017-11-17 9:08 ` Mutiny
2017-11-16 20:35 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-11-16 21:00 ` Clem Cole
2017-11-17 6:28 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2017-11-15 9:58 ` [TUHS] " Andy Kosela
2017-11-15 11:42 ` Ralph Corderoy
2017-11-01 14:05 ` Ralph Corderoy
2017-11-01 16:42 ` arnold
2017-11-01 17:17 ` Ralph Corderoy
2017-11-01 18:03 ` Dan Cross
2017-11-01 18:06 ` arnold
2017-11-01 20:16 ` Bakul Shah
2017-11-01 20:37 ` arnold
2017-11-01 21:04 ` Bakul Shah
2017-11-02 0:05 ` Chet Ramey [this message]
2017-11-02 0:10 ` Ralph Corderoy
2017-10-31 16:43 ` Don Hopkins
2017-11-02 17:48 ` Paul Winalski
2017-10-30 21:50 ` Charles Anthony
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2017-11-15 14:06 Noel Chiappa
2017-11-15 17:12 ` Ralph Corderoy
2017-11-15 17:47 ` Larry McVoy
2017-11-15 18:40 ` Bakul Shah
2017-11-15 19:58 ` Larry McVoy
2017-11-01 22:51 Norman Wilson
2017-11-01 23:09 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2017-11-02 20:29 ` Grant Taylor
2017-10-31 19:23 Norman Wilson
2017-10-30 21:40 Noel Chiappa
2017-10-18 23:03 Doug McIlroy
2017-10-19 3:53 ` Random832
2017-10-19 14:33 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2017-10-19 14:41 ` Random832
2017-10-19 21:03 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2017-10-20 19:54 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2017-10-19 14:32 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2017-10-16 17:52 Clem Cole
2017-10-16 18:54 ` Dan Cross
2017-10-17 13:51 ` Tony Finch
2017-10-17 20:22 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2017-10-16 20:05 ` Bakul Shah
2017-10-30 0:55 ` Ralph Corderoy
2017-10-30 2:54 ` Bakul Shah
2017-10-30 14:05 ` Ralph Corderoy
2017-10-16 20:39 ` Andy Kosela
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