[Nottingham] Shortcut of the week

Roger Light rogerlight at gmail.com
Thu Sep 29 19:30:06 BST 2005


On 29/09/05, Spandex <nottlug at spandex.nildram.co.uk> wrote:
>
> I just accidentally discovered that, while using less (382) you can
> press 'v' to open the file in your default editor.  Then when you
> quit the editor you're back in less again.  Handy.  Has everyone else
> been doing this for years? :)

I have used it before, but infrequently as others have said.

Something I discovered a while ago by accident is fc. fc allows you to
edit the command history and the execute the command. Very handy when
you want powerful editing rather than the command line...

Roger



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