On Sat 31 Aug 2019 at 11:11:43 (-0400), Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Sat, Aug 31, 2019 at 10:39:00AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > > On 2019-08-31 at 10:07, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > > > I actually think this is good behavior. The only obvious places to put > > the cursor when doing command history are at the beginning of the line > > and at the end, and for convenience-of-editing purposes, the end seems > > obviously preferable to the beginning. > > > > What possible shell behavior would you suggest that might be better in > > this regard? > > > When viewing the immediate prior command in history the cursor could > placed at the same position on the line as where it was found when the > command was executed (most likely because the user presed 'enter').
That completely screws up command history recall. [Assuming we're speaking bash,] ↑ leaves the cursor at the end of the previous command line so that ↑↑ goes to the next previous, and so on. If ↑ leaves the cursor in the middle of the line, then ↑↑ can only visit previous command lines that match up to the cursor position. What good is that? Cheers, David.
