On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 1:35 PM, Ed Avis <e...@waniasset.com> wrote: > Bash accepts the Emacs keybinding C-p to go back in the history, and C-n > to go forward. > But most of the time in Emacs (when using its minibuffer) the keys you use > are Meta-p > and Meta-n, or on a modern PC keyboard Alt-p and Alt-n. > > Currently entering M-p at the bash prompt gives some control characters. > It could more usefully go back in the history instead. Then if you flip > between GNU > emacs and GNU bash you wouldn't keep typing the wrong thing. > > -- > Ed Avis <e...@waniasset.com> > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > This email has been scanned by the Symantec Email Security.cloud service. > For more information please visit http://www.symanteccloud.com > ______________________________________________________________________ > >
You can add in your ~/.inputrc "\ep": previous-history "\en": next-history
