>> * At the matlab prompt, I can type 'str" then ctrl-P and it finds the
>> most recent command in the history that starts with 'str' and puts it
>> on my command line. I can then hit enter immediately and execute it.
>> It appears that with the current Julia setup, one has to type ctrl-R
>> to enter (reverse-i-search), where you can type 'str' and then ctrl-P
>> or ctrl-N to move forward and back through the history. On finding an
>> entry to execute, one has to type enter twice, once to exit the
>> interactive search and once to execute the command. Is it possible to
>> configure Julia to have a matlab-style search always active? I tried
>> playing around with the "Custom Keybindings" description in the manual
>> (http://bit.ly/1uOsoWq), but I didn't know what I was doing.
On 0.3 you can write str and PageUp. On 0.4 can write str and Up Arrow.
>> * I'd like to type "exit" instead of "exit()" or "edit myfile" instead
>> of "edit("myfile") I can likely get used to this, but right now I'm
>> noticing those few extra characters that I'm typing :-) Could
>> anyone explain the motivation for this choice?
Ctrl-d works on Linux to quit. If that doesn't work you could save one
key stoke by including below macro in you .juliarc.jl ;-)
julia> macro exit()
:(exit())
end
julia> @exit
