On 11/29/05, Berna Massingill <bmassing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 04:18:29PM -0500, Nat Gross wrote: > > >> On 11/28/05, Peter Gordon <admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > Nat Gross: > >> > > 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. > >> > I've read that you can achieve something similar to this by using the > >> > PgUp/PgDn keys with GNU Bash, but I've not tried it all. > >> I see now that the Pg keys do something, but cant figure what its doing. > > Neither can I. But the up and down arrow keys will move you up and > down in the command history, which may be what you wanted anyway. > > I notice that others have also told you about some of the other neat > tricks -- tab completion of just about everything, and control-R to > search the history. One neat thing re ctrl-r is that it will search history on any *sub*string, not only the beginning of a string. So, if I have in history: ls -l /anydir/anydir/anyfile ls -l somethingelse and I do "ctrl-r anyfile", it will retrieve the line, which I can of course edit and use with other commands. This behaviour is not the classical history-recall buffer, but is great! -nat
