Tim G enlightened us with: > Sadly, this seems not to be the case on my Ubuntu Breezy: bash > 3.00.16, libreadline 4.3/5.0 (not sure which one bash is using). > ctrl-r is fine; but you can't down-arrow from there; it just beeps > at you. Is there some setting I'm missing?
See my other post in this thread. What I wrote was tested on Ubuntu Breezy. Sybren -- The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself? Frank Zappa -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list