Re: Browsing the history of commands. Inconsistency between Bash and Emacs

2014-02-14 Thread Dani Moncayo
This is completely putting the cart before the horse. And going down that road creates a circular line of reasoning which has no end to the loop cycle. Plus it is a radical change in fundamental behavior. Please don't. I disagree with the above, obviously. See below. The entire reason

Browsing the history of commands. Inconsistency between Bash and Emacs

2014-02-13 Thread Dani Moncayo
Hello, Bash developers, (I know little about Bash, so I apologize beforehand if I say something inaccurate or nonsensical) Bug #16740 was filed today against the Emacs package, asking to remove an inconsistency between the keys employed by Emacs and Bash to browse the history of commands. See:

Re: Browsing the history of commands. Inconsistency between Bash and Emacs

2014-02-13 Thread Bob Proulx
Dani Moncayo wrote: Emacs uses M-p/M-n to browse the minibuffer history (and C-p/C-n to move to the previous/next line in a multi-line buffer), whereas Bash uses C-n/C-p for browsing the command history (and doesn't use M-p/M-n for anything, AFAIK). It would be nice to remove this

Re: Browsing the history of commands. Inconsistency between Bash and Emacs

2014-02-13 Thread Chet Ramey
On 2/13/14, 9:40 AM, Dani Moncayo wrote: Hello, Bash developers, (I know little about Bash, so I apologize beforehand if I say something inaccurate or nonsensical) Bug #16740 was filed today against the Emacs package, asking to remove an inconsistency between the keys employed by Emacs