>>>>> Gertjan Klein writes: Gertjan> [...] The principle is this: if you have an empty Gertjan> commandline and you type the up arrow, you get the previous Gertjan> command. If you've already typed something, you get Gertjan> whatever previous command starts with that. This combines Gertjan> the two functions that bash uses (and needs two keys for) Gertjan> into one. [...]
The function history-search-backward which I bound to M-p does exactly this. (Similar for M-n, history-search-forward.) kai -- A large number of young women don't trust men with beards. (BFBS Radio)
