Tim Golden enlightened us with: > 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?
With bash as well as the Python interactive shell: - ^R followed by a partial string to search - Hit ^R again to get the previous match, repeat as required - Hit ^A/^E to move the cursor to the beginning/end of the line, stopping the "search mode". This allows you to use arrow up/down from that point in the readline history. Sybren -- The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself? Frank Zappa -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list