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Re: emulate readline
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: emulate readline |
Date: |
Wed, 06 Apr 2011 21:01:50 +0300 |
> From: fork <forkandwait@gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2011 17:04:26 +0000 (UTC)
>
> Is there a way to get the behavior of this (super cool)
> readline behavior in the minibuffer?
>
> In my .inputrc I have this:
>
> "\e[A": history-search-backward
> "\e[B": history-search-forward
> "\eOA": history-search-backward
> "\eOB": history-search-forward
>
> So in bash I can type "ps", hit the up-arrow, and get the most recent
> command that started with these two letters (e.g. "psql -D foobar").
> The next time I hit up-arrow, I get "psql -U fork -D forksdb", etc.
>
> I would like to type M-x in emacs, then cycle through previous
> commands like this.
Your wish has been granted! In Emacs, this is invoked with M-s and
M-r. That is
M-x M-r psql RET
will show you a past command that matches "psql".
Re: emulate readline, Peter Dyballa, 2011/04/06