On Thursday 19 October 2006 21:41, Steve Holdoway wrote: > > However, the linux command line is far more advanced than the windows > > equivalent. > > [snip] > Technically you're describing bash here, which is the most common of > shells. Actually, the readline library. It's used for many applications which take input from the keyboard. See:- http://tiswww.tis.case.edu/~chet/readline/rltop.html
> The tcsh weirdos on this list will be jumping down your throat any > minute now (: The *BSD folks re-implemented the GNU readline library to disinfect the GNU obligations from it. In practice I found it to be 99.999% identical the the GNU version. As usual, in addition to the above URL man 3 readline produces a swag of high density prose which largely assumes you know what's it all about before you start reading. It's in book three of the manual because it's primarily a programmers manual in spite of having a large section which describes the keystrokes and how to re-configure these. -- CS
