4.4 Command Line Editing
Command line editing supporting Emacs-like commands and IBM PC arrow keys
is provided in the console-based executable. The following commands
are available:
- ^h
- erase previous char
- ^d
- erase next char
- ^u
- kill line
- ^f
- forward char
- ^b
- backward char
- ^a
- begin of line
- ^e
- end of line
- ^p
- previous line
- ^n
- next line
- ^i
- insert space
- ^s
- forward search
- ^r
- reverse search
- ^v
- view history
- ^q
- input next char blindly
- ^k
- kill to end of line
Options may be specified in the file %HOME%\spcmd.ini as:
Option Value
on separate lines. Recognized options are:
lines- Value is the number of lines in the history buffer. 1-100 is
accepted; the default is 30.
save- Value is either 0 (don't save or restore history buffer)
or 1 (save history buffer in %HOME%\spcmd.hst on exit, restore
history from the same file on start up.
The command line editing is switched off by giving the option
-nocmd when starting SICStus. Command line editing will be
automatically turned off if SICStus is run with piped input
(e.g. from Emacs).