Re: Vi Guru..

Bob,

Sorry I didn't reply sooner, I was just catching up on the list.

A couple things come to mind.

1. you can set vi to be your default command mode. I'm not at work right now, but I'm pretty certain the command is:

set -o vi

2. When using "vi mode", to get your previous command, <Esc>-K brings up the last command. If you want the last command with "foo" in it, <Esc>-K / foo [Enter]
Then to change foo to bar
s/foo/bar
And pressing [Enter] will run the newly revised command.

HTH
Stephen

On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 22:09:28 -0500, Bob Metelsky <bobmetelsky_at_comcast.net> wrote:
> Vi Water Walkers
>
> In plain vanilla vi on tru 64, how does one access the the
> command/search history
> eg
> :1,$ s/this/that/g
> then
> :1,$ s/then/this/g
> go edit the search you have to retype the whole line
>
> apparently n is supposed to get the command history but it doesn't
> In VIM on Linux the command history is conveniently available using the
> up arrow
>
> vi on tru 64 gets all wigged out... making life very painful
>
> You have to be in edit mode even when your in the --> : search thingy
>
> any pain relief for vi on tru 64 shared with the same UID ?
>
> something in the way of ... set -o emacs
> set vi -lesspain
>
> TIA
> bob
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