Does someone know if there is a setting in the python Unix world to make the command history behave as it does in the Windows intepreter? Specifically, I like the fact that the command history remembers which of a sequence of commands is the one that I last issued. For example, suppose that I typed the following lines into the interpreter:
import foo for e in foo.container: print e In Unix, I would have to tap up arrow 3 times for each line: up up up gives me "import foo". I press enter. up up up gives me "for...". I press enter. up up up gives me " print...". I press enter. In Windows, I get this behavior I like better: up up up gives me "import foo". I press enter. down gives me "for...". I press enter. down gives me " print...". I press enter. How do I get the second behavior to take place in all the platforms I use? Also, the windows version remembers my commands across sections. How do I enable that in the python version? I tried editing the inputrc file that controls the readline library by adding the following lines: $if python set history-preserve-point on $endif but this did not seem to work. TIA, Leo. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
