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Command line editing supporting Emacs-like commands and IBM PC arrow keys
is provided in the
windowed executable (spwin.exe
).
The following commands
are available:
erase previous char
erase next char
kill line
forward char
backward char
begin of line
end of line
previous line
next line
insert space
forward search
reverse search
view history
input next char blindly
kill to end of line
Options may be specified in the file ~/spcmd4.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 25.
save
Value is either 0 (do not save or restore history buffer) or 1 (save history buffer in ~/spcmd4.hst on exit, restore history from the same file on start-up).