[eekee]

I agree interactive shells suck. I like to use Acme which has been called Plan 9's Emacs, but it uses the shell tools instead of Lisp. In Acme I can enter a shell command -- I can write it directly in the appropriate dir list if I want -- then to execute it either drag over it with the middle button, or select the whole line (by double-clicking after the end; nice and easy) and then middle-click. It's much nicer than groping around blindly in a regular shell window. I've not found it so good when I wanted to use environment variables, but I've just thought on Plan 9 I could edit the files in /env directly. Not sure if that will work correctly though.