Package: bash Version: 2.05b-26 Severity: wishlist Hi there,
I found an interesting feature of readline library which can be of help for many users. You can search back and forth in the command history by just adding the following lines to ~/.inputrc: # search back and forth in the history with up/down arrows "\e[A": history-search-backward "\e[B": history-search-forward After you login again, you can simply type the first chars of previous entered command and hit the up-arrow key to search back in the command history. Because it can be very useful, I thought to file a request as to add an .inputrc file under /etc/skel in the following release of the package. I also attach my .inputrc which contains other interesting options. Thanks. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers testing APT policy: (900, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.11.4 Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (charmap=ISO-8859-15) Versions of packages bash depends on: ii base-files 3.1.0 Debian base system miscellaneous f ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-21 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libncurses5 5.4-3 Shared libraries for terminal hand ii passwd 1:4.0.3-17 Change and administer password and -- no debconf information -- Lorenzo Cappelletti
# .inputrc - libreadline configuration file # See "man 3 readline" or "info rluserman" # don't hit TAB twice set show-all-if-ambiguous on # behave like emacs set editing-mode emacs # allow Latin 1 character set input-meta on # search back and forth in the history with up/down arrows "\e[A": history-search-backward "\e[B": history-search-forward
