> On Oct 30, 2017, at 2:35 PM, Dan Mack <[email protected]> wrote: > > Devin Teske <[email protected]> writes: > >> Better in bash which allows you to filter not only on "begins with" >> but also "contains" (which is arguably more valuable than "begins >> with"). > > Definately different. Better? Maybe for some. I most always search > command history by prefix and then just using multiple ESC-p invocations > to find the one command to edit/re-execute. Less frequently I want to > search the whole text of history for the whole command line sequence > like bash Ctrl-R accomplishes. > >>>> To emulate this behaviour in bash, I simply create a .inputrc file in my >>>> $HOME with the following contents: >>>> >>>> # .inputrc file >>>> "\ep": history-search-backward >>>> "\en": 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's ESC-p/ESC-n, not just plain up-arrow/down-arrow.
You cut too important context from your reply. Before I said "Interesting that you mapped ...", ... > On Oct 30, 2017, at 8:16 AM, Alexey Dokuchaev <[email protected]> wrote: > > On GNU/Linux boxes mine has: > > "\e[A": history-search-backward > "\e[B": history-search-forward And according to wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code Under "CSI Sequences" ... \e[A is really "cursor up" (CUU; with syntax of CSI [n] A) \e[B is really "cursor down" (CUD; with syntax of CSI [n] B) NB: CSI is \e[ > Up arrow still > does up without any search. Not if you do what danfe did above, in the restored context. > At least with my config using \ep as shown. > My up arrows work for me as expected - they just iterate forward and > backward through shell history. > That is expected behavior. -- Devin _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
