> On Oct 30, 2017, at 8:16 AM, Alexey Dokuchaev <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 09:47:22AM -0500, Dan Mack wrote: >> ... >> I use ESC-P / ESC-N a lot; it's a neat feature that tcsh has had for a >> long time, maybe since the beginning. However it's a tcsh feature, not >> sh, bash, or csh IIRC. But csh is actually tcsh on FreeBSD but I'm sure >> most people already know this on this list. > > It is the same as up/down arrows?
In tcsh/zsh if you do not type anything first, it is like up/down arrows. If you type something first, the list is filtered by "begins with" given what you have typed thus-far. > Yeah, one of the best tcsh(1) features! > Better in bash which allows you to filter not only on "begins with" but also "contains" (which is arguably more valuable than "begins with"). >> To emulate this behaviour in bash, I simply create a .inputrc file in my >> $HOME with the following contents: >> >> # .inputrc field >> "\ep": history-search-backward >> "\en": history-search-forward > > On GNU/Linux boxes mine has: > > "\e[A": history-search-backward > "\e[B": history-search-forward > Interesting that you mapped these to cursor-up/cursor-down. That may cause unexpected results. For example, typing something and then pressing up-arrow will cause the shell to give you the previous command that started with that rather than the previous command in-general. It would then be the case that you cannot navigate the history sequentially unless the input line is empty before using cursor-up/cursor-down. -- Devin _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
