"Tim Golden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> But command line in Windows is in no way in the same >> league as *nix shell. Use <tab> for command completion and up/down >> arrow or <ctrl-R> to search for history. > > [darren kirby] >> Try ctrl-r in bash, then type your first few letters... > > Thanks to both of you. But that much I already knew. It's not > that I have *no* knowledge about readline: I did at least > read the manuals when I got stuck! But as far as I can tell > from my experience and from the docs -- and I'm not near a > Linux box at the mo -- having used ctrl-r to recall line x > in the history, you can't just down-arrow to recall x+1, x+2 etc. > Or can you?
I don't know. When I discovered this I uninstalled the (windows) readline module from my Python installation. > (Sorry guys; I realise this is more stuff for comp.os.linux or > comp.commandlineshells.bash or whatever it's called. But if > someone *did* know the answer, I'd be really happy!) ;-) Thomas -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
