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Full Discussion: where can i set editor option to yes
Operating Systems Solaris where can i set editor option to yes Post 302177207 by rbatte1 on Thursday 20th of March 2008 10:13:01 AM
Old 03-20-2008
There are many options .....
... but the one I generall favour is to put a statement ...

set -o vi

.... in .profile or .kshrc for ksh users. You can then vi-editor controls to retreive and edit the command line. On the command line, you are in normal input mode until you press the escape button. You are now in command mode and can use the vi control buttons.

k - previous line
j - next line (if you have gone too far back)
h - left one character
l - right one character, yes that's l (lower case L) for right.
x - delete current character
i - insert before current character (back to input mode)
a - append after current character (back to input mode)
A - append to end of line
C - clear to end of line and back into input mode
D - clear to end of line (remain in command mode)


.... the list goes on, but these are the most useful. The arrow keys take on functions too:-

Up - Escape A, therefore append to end of line
Down - Escape B, back a "word" and into command mode.
Right - Escape C, clear to end of line and into input mode.
Left - Escape D, clear to end of line and into command mode.



I hope that this helps a bit.

Robin,
Blackburn,
Lancashire
 

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gets

gets(n) 						       Tcl Built-In Commands							   gets(n)

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

NAME

       gets - Read a line from a channel

SYNOPSIS

       gets channelId ?varName?
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DESCRIPTION

       This command reads the next line from channelId, returns everything in the line up to (but not including) the end-of-line character(s), and
       discards the end-of-line character(s).  If varName is omitted the line is returned as the result of the command.  If varName  is  specified
       then the line is placed in the variable by that name and the return value is a count of the number of characters returned.

       If  end	of file occurs while scanning for an end of line, the command returns whatever input is available up to the end of file.  If chan-
       nelId is in nonblocking mode and there is not a full line of input available, the command returns an empty string and does not consume  any
       input.	If  varName is specified and an empty string is returned in varName because of end-of-file or because of insufficient data in non-
       blocking mode, then the return count is -1.  Note that if varName is not specified then the end-of-file	and  no-full-line-available  cases
       can produce the same results as if there were an input line consisting only of the end-of-line character(s).  The eof and fblocked commands
       can be used to distinguish these three cases.

SEE ALSO

       file(n), eof(n), fblocked(n)

KEYWORDS

       blocking, channel, end of file, end of line, line, nonblocking, read

Tcl									7.5								   gets(n)
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