[Twisted-Python] History editing in bash/csh

[Andrew Stribblehill]

Quoting Jp Calderone <exarkun at intarweb.us> (2003-02-14 08:29:45 GMT):
> On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 01:35:35PM -0000, Moshe Zadka wrote:
> > On Fri, 14 Feb 2003, Glyph Lefkowitz <glyph at twistedmatrix.com> wrote:
> > [snip]
> > 
> > > Hmm.  That actually looks ugly to me, but something like that.
> > 
> > Yes, this is the overriding problem. Is it really a problem in development?
> > When I develop, I just do "!mktap\n!twistd" in bash...
> 
>   I'll go you one better, "!mktap && !twistd" the first time, and "!mktap"
> every subsequent time.  Either way, this has always seemed sufficient to me.
> 
> The biggest problem I have is the amount of time it takes to backtrack from
> the end of a long command to somewhere in the middle to change an option,
> and this strikes me as a bash problem, not a Twisted one (one that
> lengthening the "twistd" invocation command would only exacerbate.

Um, this has gone way off-topic and for this, I apologise. Still,
bash and csh-like shells have "history editing":

$ long-command-name --opt1 -o -f filenume --debug=73 --wipe-my-nose-for-me
long-command-name: File "filenume" not found
$ ^nume^name^

HTH.

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