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From: Anssi Saari <anssi.saari@usenet.mail.kapsi.fi>
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Subject: Re: Useless Use Of Regexes
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Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> writes:

> Very presumptious to assume emacs style line editing, isn't it?
>
> To go back in history, I type <ESC>k and then I'm at the start of the
> line of the most recent command. On the current line I'd type <ESC>^
> but <ESC><HOME> would work.

The only time I've had to use vi command history editing was with some
old version of VxWorks. It was the only kind included by default. I
ended up teaching some colleagues on how to edit the command line, vi
style.