From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: Linda Walsh <xfs@tlinx.org>
Cc: xfs-oss <xfs@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: Why xfs_<utils> not 'readline' w/line-edit & history enabled?
Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2012 06:17:48 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121002201748.GQ23520@dastard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <506B1A03.7030600@tlinx.org>
On Tue, Oct 02, 2012 at 09:44:51AM -0700, Linda Walsh wrote:
> Something I've long wished for and wondered why it wasn't
> there -- was the ability to edit or re-edit a typed line,
> or recall a previous line from history.
>
> I'd really find it useful to even have the ability for it to
> save previous command sessions / tool.
>
> Given the usefulness of such, I was wondering why it had
> never been done? Just it never rose to the top of some
> task list? Or was there some desire to keep the tools
> less friendly and thus make them more difficult to use for
> casual use (i.e. it might have been a conscious design
> decision at some point). Is that reasoning still a strong
> enough factor to keep things like that out of the mainline
> code?
xfsprogs has had this support via readline since, well, before I
started working on XFS....
$ sudo xfs_db -r /dev/vdb
xfs_db> inode 128
(reverse-i-search)`in': inode 128
....
Cheers,
Dave.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-02 20:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-02 16:44 Why xfs_<utils> not 'readline' w/line-edit & history enabled? Linda Walsh
2012-10-02 18:41 ` Kinzel, David
2012-10-02 20:17 ` Dave Chinner [this message]
2012-10-02 21:29 ` Linda Walsh
2012-10-03 2:06 ` Eric Sandeen
2012-10-03 2:16 ` Nathan Scott
2012-10-03 3:51 ` Linda Walsh
2012-10-03 3:58 ` Nathan Scott
2012-10-03 4:21 ` Linda Walsh
2012-10-04 12:12 ` David Disseldorp
2012-10-02 21:30 ` Linda Walsh
2012-10-02 21:34 ` Linda Walsh
2012-10-02 21:52 ` Dave Chinner
2012-10-02 22:52 ` Why xfs_<utils> not 'readline' w/line-edit & history enabled? (+attachment) Linda Walsh
2012-10-02 23:14 ` Dave Chinner
2012-10-02 23:34 ` Linda Walsh
2012-10-02 23:50 ` Dave Chinner
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