[MSH] MSH Not So Great For Interactive Users

I appreciate all the wonderful features and power MSH
has for people doing scripting. But, I'm an old Unix
guy and I was hoping for better treatment from MSH
when I'm typing commands. Specifically, MSH should
be at least as good as csh/tcsh at reducing the number
of characters I have to type (I recognize and agree that
these shells are awful for scripting).

For example, and correct me if I'm wrong, MSH offers intelligent
tab completion of keywords and other computable syntactic
elements, but otherwise doesn't offer any way to do command
line substitution or a way to reference previously executed
commands. It's truly amazing to watch a csh/tcsh expert
do amazing things by typing just a few characters.

Am I missing something?

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Jon Forrest
forrest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Computer Resources Manager
Civil and Environmental Engineering Dept.
305 Davis Hall
Univ. of Calif., Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-1710
510-642-0904
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