Hello y'all, First, I need to say that I'm writing this after some measure of pause, because bash is already so richly-featured, and is the product of so much development over so much time. However, in my recent use of bash, the following could have been useful, and y'all might think would be useful generally.
1] display multiple solutions for a bash history search - Instead of a user having to repeat the crtl-r/ctrl-s sequence, and have each solution overwrite the previous one, allow the user to prefix ctrl-r/ctrl-s with an integer for the maximum number of entries to display. Maybe prefix each solution with it's line number in the history, so that the desired solution could be invoked using !nn 2] Add a feature for history -d to delete more than one line of the history. Maybe history -d n,m to delete lines n through m, or history -d n:m to delete m lines beginning with line number n. 3] Add a feature for history -d to delete multiple lines based upon a regular expression. EXAMPLES: history -d n ^man* - delete the n most recent history lines that begin with "man" history -d n:m ^man* - delete the first m lines that begin with "man", starting at line n. history -d n,m ^man* - delete all occurrences of ^man* between lines n and m.
