Dont for get good old ctrl r On Monday 17 November 2003 20:51, Jaap A. Haitsma wrote: > Already wanted this feature for ages, now finally discovered how you can > get it to work in bash. > > Let's say you have the typed following history in bash > > info gcc > make > vi main.c > make > vi Makefile > > > Now you want to issue another "info gcc". You could press the up arrow > four times but if you bind the <up arrow> to "history-search-backward" > instead of "previous-history" you can type the first characters of the > line you want to repeat and then push the <up arrow>. In this case you > would type i <up arrow> and bash already presents you with the "info > gcc" line. "history-search-backward" and "history-search-forward" only > show you the history entries which match with the character you already > typed. If you do not type anything it just works like the normal > history. > > To get this behaviour always add the following two lines to your > /etc/inputrc > > "\M-[A":history-search-backward > "\M-[B":history-search-forward > > Have fun with it > > Jaap > > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
