On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 14:28, Nat Gross wrote: > Back in the days of MS-DOA (um, msdos), I had a little tsr (forgot > about *that* tla) called 4DOS that enhanced the command line > experience. The more I work at the linux command line, the more I miss > some basic functions. Ok, we have scroll back history, but how about: > > 1. Typing a partial command that exists in history, hit <F8>, and the > command either gets completed (if unique string), or a little menu is > presented. Hit control-R for an emacs-like incremental-search through history. There's a way to switch to vi-style but when I tried it long ago it lost the up/down arrow scroll through history. Does anyone know if that is fixed now? > 2. Any command that involves a file or directory (in the current dir) > can have the file/dir name auto-entered also via > 'partial-string+function key'. Hit <tab> to have the command line auto-filled, or just use a wildcard in the command if you don't need to see it first. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
