^K should go to next history item

2010-05-10 Thread jidanni
^P^P^P^P^K^K^K^K or at least ^P^P^P^P^A^K^A^K^A^K^A^K should kill each line out of the history. Instead we need to do more steps: ^P^P^P^P^A^K^N^A^K^N^A^K^N^A^K .

Re: How to overwrite a symbolic link?

2010-05-10 Thread Bob Proulx
Peng Yu wrote: > Marc Herbert wrote: > > So you are really trying to re-invent some copy-on-write/versioning > > file system by hacking symbolic links and redirections. This looks > > like a lot of pain. You'd better start by looking at existing > > solutions; even if none is ideal for your case, y

Re: How to overwrite a symbolic link?

2010-05-10 Thread Peng Yu
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 6:59 AM, Marc Herbert wrote: > Le 07/05/2010 16:02, Peng Yu a écrit : >> I can copy the whole >> directory and then modify one file in the newly copied N files. But >> I'll lose track of which file has been changed later on, which is >> important to me. > > You will not los

Re: Standard .bashrc needs a minor fix

2010-05-10 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sat, May 08, 2010 at 08:42:02AM -0800, Ken Irving wrote: > bash(1) (v4.1) includes: > > OPTIONS > ... > -iIf the -i option is present, the shell is interactive. > > and > > INVOCATION > ... > PS1 is set and $- includes i if bash is interactive,

Re: How to overwrite a symbolic link?

2010-05-10 Thread Marc Herbert
Le 07/05/2010 16:02, Peng Yu a écrit : > I can copy the whole > directory and then modify one file in the newly copied N files. But > I'll lose track of which file has been changed later on, which is > important to me. You will not lose track of the changed files: just run a recursive diff compari