welcome back to the adventure this is Adam and today I'm going to go over a
way to make das work just a little bit better than it already does if you're
experimenting with this at home you may have noticed the typing in simple
commands like say we did Mina der slash just to view our files page at a time if
you make a mistake when you're typing in the command
you can't go back it just deletes whatever was already tight the cursor
isn't able to move back and make a correction the only option is to delete
it so if you've gone through a long string of text and you need to go back
and make a small correction to one thing you're not able to do that like we
looked at last video you can use the copy con command to capture keyboard
input it works the same way there if you're typing out a sentence and you've
made a mistake somewhere along the line you have to delete everything back to
where the mistake was just to fix it on top of that if you wanted to repeat a
command that you've already done maybe I want der /w this time so now we're in a
wide format where it displays the files and various columns across the screen
well I can't press up or down to recall the entire command that I type I can
press the right arrow on the key word and it will type out whatever my last
command was but I don't have an option to flip back and forth through other
commands that I may have also typed in the same city whether it was type or
copy con or copy or any of the things that we've already gone over das doesn't
have a memory of commands that you've typed well it doesn't have a memory on
its own so I would like to discuss what's called dusky and that's it it's
already loaded it's as simple as that so now that we have da scheme loaded
let's try typing in that redouble you command awesome so now I do have the
option to press the up arrow and it completes whatever the last command was
that I did say I did do something complicated like before where I combine
file1 and file2 together we can do that again why not
now thanks to da ski I have a few options available to me I can press the
uparrow and I could see the really long command that I just typed I can go back
and I can change the file names say I want to copy file to you'll notice that
it over wrote what I type that's not the desired effect but there is an option
available if we type in the DA ski command again we can type in slash
insert and what that will do when we're working with this line of text is insert
instead of overwrite so I can simply make this file to go over here and make
this file for and I can change this to file five and there you go
and we type in der again there we are file five is available no perhaps typing
in three four five different commands it's not that hard to remember
everything that you've typed in but when you're typing tens of commands at a time
it is useful to be able to recall all of the different commands that you've typed
duskie also has you covered here not only can you scroll up and down in the
list of everything you've already typed you can press the f7 key and it will
display a list of men's there they are laid out for you you can also use page
up and page down to skip to the first command or the last meant where you can
use the f9 key to go to a specific command
go directly to CLM there we go and that is not the extent of what dose ki can do
there are macros available for dose key that we'll discuss in a later episode
how to set those up use them all that good stuff there are some switches
available with das key like we talked about these slash inserts so I will go
ahead and show that briefly here if you need to know more about a file you can
type in the name of the file which in this case is das key followed by a space
the forward slash and a question mark and then that will display essentially a
help file that explains the command and how to use it as I mentioned we'll be
going over the macros feature of the program in a later video we've
previously referred to the autoexec.bat file as being a collection of commands
that is executed when the computer started so you don't have to sit there
and type everything in just to get the computer to run the way that you want
so because das key is such a helpful program let's go ahead and add a line to
our autoexec.bat file so it loads das key every time for us so we have these
better functions available without having to type in das key the PC
so this is another item that we will load hi and the path
so now when we start the PC duskie will load for us
unfortunately every time the PC is restarted da ski loses its memory of
commands that were previously tired but that's also in part what the macros are
for so now the DA ski loads every time the computer starts the environment runs
just a little bit better than it did that wraps up our video for today please
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