On Sat, 21 Mar 2009, Ken Irving wrote:
On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 01:01:51PM -0400, Cam Cope wrote:
On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 11:48 AM, Chet Ramey <chet.ra...@case.edu> wrote:
Cam Cope wrote:
Combine tab completion with history: when you put ! at the beginning of a
command and use tab completion, it displays history results
What do you mean by `history results'?
I'm sorry if the feature has already been implemented, I haven't heard of
any way to implement it. This is what I was thinking of:
Right now, if you run history, it will list out all the recently used
commands, and then you could run !360 to run that history result. Often I'm
looking for a specific command that I don't want to retype the options for.
Instead of having to do history | grep commandname and then !###, just start
typing !commandname and hit tab to see history entries that start with it.
This sounds a lot like what you get with the reverse-search-history
command, bound to control-r (C-r), a great feature indeed.
Also take note of history-search-backward (not bound to any key by
default, but which I have bound to up-arrow), which searches for
commands beginning with whatever you have already entered on the
command line.
For example, if I type 'gr' and up-arrow, I will get the last grep
command I used. Keep pressing for earlier instances.
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