Re: Navigator - Make it green screen and everyone will love it

Hello Larry,

Am 26.02.2021 um 20:24 schrieb Larry DrFranken Bolhuis <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:

Money spent on changes to the CLI are rarely worth the effort.

As a long standing Linux Admin, I disagree.

I'd really love to have another F-Key for bringing up a Popup-Menu allowing to choose which of the last commands I want to re-run, or even press F4 next, to have it put into the matching form to make changes. Or press enter to send it to the command line (but not execute it, to allow for manual changes). This is about the same as the "history" command with bash, followed by !<num> to re-run a certain command.

I have no idea how the equivalent of Ctrl-R search backwards in history for the string I'm typing could be implemented on 5250, though. :-)

I'd really love to have the option to omit duplicates being saved in the command history. I've never understood why IGNOREDUPS isn't default in bash, and why duplicates are saved into the F9-History at all in IBM i.

These come immediately to my mind to make life easier with not too much programming effort for IBM.

There are exceptions of course such as F8. :-)

See? There are always exceptions you probably didn't think about because you're not used to them on other platforms. :-) See here for more gems:

https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/ubuntu/keyboard-shortcuts-for-bash-command-shell-for-ubuntu-debian-suse-redhat-linux-etc/

A command shell *can* be made very comfortable, up to the point like zsh does, which is a bit "too much" for me. ;-) But I know people not wanting to use anything else but zsh anymore.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z_shell

:wq! PoC