On Tue, Oct 02, 2012 at 09:44:51AM -0700, Linda Walsh wrote: > Something I've long wished for and wondered why it wasn't > there -- was the ability to edit or re-edit a typed line, > or recall a previous line from history. > > I'd really find it useful to even have the ability for it to > save previous command sessions / tool. > > Given the usefulness of such, I was wondering why it had > never been done? Just it never rose to the top of some > task list? Or was there some desire to keep the tools > less friendly and thus make them more difficult to use for > casual use (i.e. it might have been a conscious design > decision at some point). Is that reasoning still a strong > enough factor to keep things like that out of the mainline > code? xfsprogs has had this support via readline since, well, before I started working on XFS.... $ sudo xfs_db -r /dev/vdb xfs_db> inode 128 (reverse-i-search)`in': inode 128 .... Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
