On Fri, 27 Mar 1998, Steve Revilak wrote:

>Having worked in VMS environments, there is one VMS convention (also exists
>in DOS) regarding command line history whose Unix equivalent I'd love to
>know.
>
>The 'up' arrow-- on VMS systems would cycle backwards through the command
>history, *without* executing the line.  (ie--as if you had re-typed the
>line without pressing <return>.  Useful for dealing with typos, etc.  I'm
>familiar with 'history' and !!, !*, and ![command-number], but these all
>re-execute the command, not allowing changes. (ie--type the command line,
>followed by <return>).

Check out tcsh probably in the package system, if not it compile pretty
easy for me a few year ago.  It is basically a csh replacement that has
this functionality.

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