Matt Wozniski wrote:
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 1:05 AM, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
Andy Koppe wrote:
Andrew DeFaria wrote:
> "\e[1;5A": history-search-backward
> "\e[1;5B": history-search-forward
Perhaps I don't understand this 'bash' feature, but it doesn't seem to
work for me.
Start typing a command, press Ctrl-Up, and it finds the previous line in
the history that started like that.
Why not simply type Ctrl-R then the first few letters of a command (or
some letters in the middle of a command). Works great! Requires no support
from any terminal emulator...
Yes, obviously you can bind the history search to any key you like.
The points were, since you seemed to have missed them, that 1) that's the
default binding for bash
It's a default binding for bash that does something different than the
suggested binding. It's great that you can do both, but they're not
the same. I know of both, use both, and find history-search-backward
and history-search-forward much more useful more of the time than
reverse-search-history and forward-search-history.
and 2) it doesn't require MinTTY, nor xterm, nor
any particular terminal emulator. IOW it works out of the box, in fact works
in Cygwin's bash Windows console window
It works with all terminal emulators that are set up to send CTRL+R as
the single byte 0x12 - nearly all do by default, but there's no reason
they have to. xterm can be configured to send CSI 27;5;114 ~
instead. Andy's suggestion works with all terminal emulators that
send CSI 1;5 A for CTRL+UP - again, most do, but not all. There's no
difference between the two here, apart from one binding being default
and the other being added with .inputrc.
and does not even restrict you to
locating only the start of a command. All win, win, win situations as I see
it.
The fact that it's "restricted" to only working at the start of the
line is why it's more useful more of the time for me. I sometimes
want to find a command that contained 'foobar' as one of its arguments
somewhere on the line - but, much more often, I want to find that
cryptic ctags invocation, or that find command, etc. If I know what
the line begins with, then searching with CTRL+R just gives me false
positives that I need to skip over.
~Matt
Like I said - to each his own...
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