RE: [Boa Constr] Shell enhancements

[Patrick K. O'B. <po...@or...>]

Excellent. I sure needed that one. Thanks.

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Patrick K. O'Brien
Orbtech
"I am, therefore I think."

-----Original Message-----
From: Riaan Booysen [mailto:riaan@e.co.za]
Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2001 9:25 AM
To: po...@or...
Cc: Boa Constructor Users
Subject: Re: [Boa Constr] Shell enhancements

Hello Patrick,

"Patrick K. O'Brien" wrote:
>
> When I am in the shell, how do I reexecute a previous command? In other
> shells you can go to a previous line and hit return and that line gets
> copied down to the lowest prompt, then you can hit return again and it is
> executed. I'm rather in the habit of doing this while experimenting with
> things interactively. Is there a way to get the same behavior with boa? In
> addition, IDLE has Alt-p and Alt-n to retrieve commands and Alt-/ to
expand
> words. PythonWin shares some of these same conventions. While it doesn't
> have Alt-p or Alt-n it does allow you to hit return on previous lines and
do
> Alt-/ to expand words.

Luckily I've added one of these sorely missing features a little while
ago (now in CVS)

You can now go up and down in your history of commands with ctrl and
up and down cursors (Like in PythonWin ;)

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Riaan Booysen