Command line editing in Mma
- To: mathgroup at yoda.physics.unc.edu
- Subject: Command line editing in Mma
- From: Markus Lautenbacher <lauten at feynman.t30.physik.tu-muenchen.de>
- Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1992 09:59:13 +0200
Hi MathGroupers,
this might be of interest to those of you running Mathematica (Mma) on
UNIX boxes without a notebook or GNU emacs front-end.
I have recently stumbled by chance over a UNIX tool called "fep", the
general purpose Front End Processor. "fep" adds a history mechanism a'
la csh and emacs/vi like command line editing capabilities to line
oriented UNIX commands. I've tried "fep" on Mma 1.2 and 2.0 and it
worked fine making the usage of standard UNIX Mma *a lot* more
convenient.
Personally I don't see "fep" as a competitor to the math-mode of GNU
emacs but as a valuable alternative.
For the nearest ftp-site of "fep" I've simply asked the well known
"archie" ftp-lookup server.
Regards,
MARKUS
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