At Tue, 24 May 2005 09:36:56 +0800 (WST), jam wrote: > I love vi, but do not use the vi-command-edit option of bash. > My mate who does asked me how to do this with the standard (emacs) shell > edit functions: > > /someword # look for a history event starting 'someword' > <up> # previous history event starting 'someword' > <cr> # execute THAT command
The bash/readline function you're looking for is history-search-backward, which is not bound to any keys by default. I'd bind it to M-p (if I was using bash) to make it similar to the old tcsh behaviour (and its better than the default M-p function - non-incremental-reverse-search-history) Put this in ~/.inputrc to have it work for all readline-using programs: "\M-p": history-search-backward or run this from your .bashrc if you only want to use it in bash: bind '"\M-p": history-search-backward' For reference, zsh users would put this in .zshrc to get the same thing: bindkey -m # get a meta key bindkey '\M-p' history-beginning-search-backward -- - Gus -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
