Tim Bray wrote:
> On Aug 8, 2007, at 8:06 AM, Josh Hurst wrote:
> 
>>> 1. !!
>>> 5. pushd/popd
> 
> It's gonna be painful explaining the absence of these to all the  
> people we're trying to evangelize in Linux/OS-X-land.  Personally, I  
> couldn't imagine working without pushd/popd.  -T

pushd/popd and dirs came from csh.  They are invaluable when you only
had a terminal.  They are so invaluable that ksh code to implement them
is on pp 244-247 of "The Kornshell Command and Programming Language" by
Bolsky and Korn, ISBN 0-13-516972-0.

So it is not really a matter of "ksh can't do pushd/popd/dirs" it is a
matter of "the default environment for ksh doesn't include pushd/popd/dirs"

Substitute pushd/popd for arrow keys.  Repeat.

If we are going to fix that, then I'll suggest we change the default
interactive editor mode from "vi" to "emacs," because I'm an emacs fan :-)
(chapter 8, ibid)
  -- richard
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