Re: Great SWT Program

In article <1193630894.391232.326900@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
<nebulous99@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Oct 28, 1:36 am, blm...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <blm...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Did you know that you can also edit a search query with some of
those Unix tools you're having such fun putting down?

I seem to recall that not actually working so well. I seem to recall,
in fact, trying to go back and correct something only to find it ended
up just printing garble. Something like ^]]D kept appearing when I
wasn't even typing anything, just trying to move around. Needless to
say I quickly concluded that the thing was incredibly primitive and
supported, at most, backspacing and retyping.

No idea what you're talking about here. I suppose it might have
been true for some version of emacs or vi you used at some point
in the past.

If they've improved things since then, there's still the matter that
Windows and Mac and I expect KDE and Gnome search boxes reappear
populated with the last performed query, while those / prompts give
you a tabula rasa every time...

True. But if one [*] wants the previous query, one can get it (in
some of those tools anyway) by pressing the up arrow. Pressing the
up arrow again produces the query before that. Before actually
launching the query one can edit it to be slightly different.

[*] Initially I wrote "you" here. But I think it's clear that
you-in-particular have little interest is using any of these
tools, so best to make it explicit that I don't mean "you" to mean
"you in particular".

--
B. L. Massingill
ObDisclaimer: I don't speak for my employers; they return the favor.
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