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This was never an issue when shells were first invented, because there were no mice. You could not select a region of the screen with the mouse, so there were
by alejohausner 6y ago
This was never an issue when shells were first invented, because there were no mice. You could not select a region of the screen with the mouse, so there were no cut-and-paste errors like these.
If I want repeat an earlier command, I use the up-arrow, or bang:
!a repeats the last command that began with an "a".
- JdeBP 6y agoThe computer mouse, in its current form, was invented half a decade before Unix itself was. This should be qualified with: there were no mice on the machines that ran Unix.