> 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?
Subsequent pressing of C-r will show you items further down the history that contain the same substring. Use C-s to search the other direction. Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
