command prompt history filtered by initial letters
Hello, On WindowsXP with Python 2.5.1 (from the python-2.5.1.msi): when I'm at the python prompt, up-arrow scrolls through the command history. If I type group of characters first, up-arrow shows only the previous commands that start with that group of characters. On CentOS 5 with Python 2.5.4 (that I built locally): up-arrow does not filter the command history based on initial characters at the prompt. How do I get this command history filter working on the centos install? --Todd -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
command prompt history filtered by initial letters
Hello, On WindowsXP with Python 2.5.1 (from the python-2.5.1.msi): when I'm at the python prompt, up-arrow scrolls through the command history. If I type group of characters first, up-arrow shows only the previous commands that start with that group of characters. On CentOS 5 with Python 2.5.4 (that I built locally): up-arrow does not filter the command history based on initial characters at the prompt. How do I get this command history filter working on the centos install? I see that allows history search. That is the workaround. Sorry if this is a double-post. --Todd -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: command prompt history filtered by initial letters
Oops, pardon the double-post. Doesn't python invoke its own shell? On windows I start by running c: \WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe. But then I run 'python' and get the ">>>" prompt. The same thing happens from a bash or tcsh shell on Linux, right? Are you saying that OS-specific shell capabilities are inherited by the python shell? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: command prompt history filtered by initial letters
On Apr 30, 3:25 pm, MRAB wrote: > You're running Python in a console/shell window. Python calls the > console for a line of input and the call doesn't return until the > Enter/carriage return key is pressed. All the fancy history stuff is a > feature of the console, not Python. Understood, thank you! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
