Kai Grossjohann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you type, say, "g" then M-p repeatedly you get > all command lines that begin with "g". I use this *all* the time, as > an alternative to "!g" because it lets me see if I got the right > command line before I hit Enter.
Still, none of this even begins to compare with the ease of use of (horror! shock!) the DOS command interpreter 4DOS! Why use separate keys like M-p for this, when you've got the arrow keys? The principle is this: if you have an empty commandline and you type the up arrow, you get the previous command. If you've already typed something, you get whatever previous command starts with that. This combines the two functions that bash uses (and needs two keys for) into one. I wish I could convince bash to work like this! Gertjan. -- Gertjan Klein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The Boot Control home page: http://www.xs4all.nl/~gklein/bcpage.html
