I'm not sure if this is a bug, but after upgrading to Ubuntu 18.04 (which uses Readline 7.0) from an earlier version (using Readline 6.0), the behavior of history-search-backward/forward in Bash seems to be a bit different. I have the following lines in my ~/.inputrc to cyle through Bash's command line history:
"\eOA": history-search-backward "\eOB": history-search-forward "\e[A": history-search-backward "\e[B": history-search-forward Now, if I start with an emtpy ~/.bash_history and type in a two-word command like $ echo helloworld and try to complete the arguments to echo the next time $ echo <arrow-up> the command gets completed twice: $ echo helloworld echo helloworld Which on pressing the return key runs the command twice. I figured out that this can be fixed by making the first line of ~/.bash_history an empty blank line. Though I'm not 100% that this is a bug, I thought I should report this. -Rahul _______________________________________________ Bug-readline mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-readline
