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Look into shells
Authored by: SeanAhern on Oct 22, '01 06:04:04PM

A lot of these are features of the shell that runs within a Terminal, and has nothing to do with the Terminal per se. All of the modern shells have "command line editing", which allows you to recall previous commands and edit them, either with emacs or vi keystrokes. Read more about command line editing here.

Specific shells that some people like are tcsh, ksh, bash, and zsh (my personal favorite). Check out a man page about them ("man tcsh") to learn more about how to use them well. You can also check out Freshmeat (freshmeat.net) for more information about particular shells (and other UNIX programs).



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