Tornado

Tornado 2.0
User’s Guide
the host stty command (which you can call from the Tcl interpreter; see 5.7 Tcl: Shell
Interpretation, p.198). They must be single characters, usually control characters;
Table 5-15 includes these characters, but shows only common default values.
The ESC key switches the shell from normal input mode to edit mode. The history
and editing commands in Table 5-15 are available in edit mode.
Some line-editing commands switch the line editor to insert mode until an ESC is
typed (as in vi) or until an ENTER gives the line to one of the shell interpreters.
ENTER always gives the line as input to the current shell interpreter, from either
input or edit mode.
In input mode, the shell history command h( )(described in System Information,
p.160) displays up to 20 of the most recent commands typed to the shell; older
commands are lost as new ones are entered. You can change the number of
commands kept in history by running h( ) with a numeric argument. To locate a
line entered previously, press ESC followed by one of the search commands listed
in Table 5-15; you can then edit and execute the line with one of the commands
from Table 5-15.
NOTE: Not all the editing commands that take counts in vi do so in the shell’s line
editor. For example, ni does not repeat the inserted text n times.
Table 5-15
Shell Line-Editing Commands
Basic Control
h [size]
ESC
ENTER
CTRL+D
[tab]
CTRL+H
CTRL+U
CTRL+L
Display shell history if no argument; otherwise set history buffer to
size.
Switch to line-editing mode from regular input mode.
Give line to shell and leave edit mode.
Complete symbol or path name (edit mode), display synopsis of
current symbol (symbol must be complete, followed by a space), or
end shell session (if the command line is empty).
Complete symbol or path name (edit mode).
Delete a character (backspace).
Delete entire line (edit mode).
Redraw line (works in edit mode).
194