02-20-2001
That is a function of the shell and the command line editor you are working in/with. I work in KSH so I set my EDITOR environmental variable to <B>vi</B> and have the entire range of vi search and replace on the command line. This is the same as all the vi commands in a file. For example, to move forward a line: <ESC>j ; backwards: <ESC> k. To search for a command: <ESC>/string . This is very powerful and fast (much more powerful than DOS, BTW).
Other use EMACS as the command line editor.
Also, differnet shells have builtins that do not require using a command line editor. For me, I could not imagine not using vi or emacs on the command line. The power is amazing.
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LEARN ABOUT OPENSOLARIS
rnano
RNANO(1) General Commands Manual RNANO(1)
NAME
rnano - Restricted mode for Nano's ANOther editor, an enhanced free Pico clone
SYNOPSIS
rnano [OPTIONS] [[+LINE,COLUMN] FILE]...
DESCRIPTION
This manual page briefly documents the rnano command.
nano is a small, free and friendly editor which aims to replace Pico, the default editor included in the non-free Pine package. Rather than
just copying Pico's look and feel, nano also implements some missing (or disabled by default) features in Pico, such as "search and
replace" and "go to line and column number".
rnano is a restricted version of nano, which only edits specific files and doesn't allow the user access to the filesystem or a command
shell.
In restricted mode, nano will not:
o read or write to any file not specified on the command line;
o read any nanorc files;
o allow suspending;
o allow a file to be appended to, prepended to, or saved under a different name;
o use backup files or spell checking.
OPTIONS
+LINE,COLUMN
Places cursor at line number LINE and column number COLUMN (at least one of which must be specified) on startup, instead of the
default of line 1, column 1.
-? Same as -h (--help).
-h (--help)
Show a summary of command line options and exit.
-V (--version)
Show the current version number and exit.
See the nano(1) manpage for the complete documentation of nano.
BUGS
Please send any comments or bug reports to nano@nano-editor.org.
The nano mailing list is available from nano-devel@gnu.org.
To subscribe, email to nano-devel-request@gnu.org with a subject of "subscribe".
HOMEPAGE
http://www.nano-editor.org/
AUTHOR
Chris Allegretta <chrisa@asty.org>, et al (see AUTHORS for details). This manual page was originally written by Thijs Kinkhorst
<thijs@kinkhorst.com>, for the Debian system (but may be used by others).
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+--------------------+-----------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+--------------------+-----------------+
|Availability | SUNWgnu-nano |
+--------------------+-----------------+
|Interface Stability | Uncommitted |
+--------------------+-----------------+
NOTES
Source for GNU nano is available on http://opensolaris.org.
August 23, 2007 version 2.0.0 RNANO(1)