On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 04:59:36PM EDT, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Chris Jones wrote:
> > I had posted the following obfuscated explanation a couple of hours
> > ago but since I was subscribed under a different address, it never
> > made it to the list.
> >
> > :-(
>
> Actually it seems to have made it
Chris Jones wrote:
> I had posted the following obfuscated explanation a couple of hours ago
> but since I was subscribed under a different address, it never made it
> to the list.
>
> :-(
Actually it seems to have made it to the okay. No need for an unhappy
face. You do not need to be subscrib
On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 01:16:12PM EDT, Ken Irving wrote:
> This sounds a lot like what you get with the reverse-search-history
> command, bound to control-r (C-r), a great feature indeed.
Priceless.
I had posted the following obfuscated explanation a couple of hours ago
but since I was subscr
On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 01:01:51PM EDT, Cam Cope wrote:
> I'm sorry if the feature has already been implemented, I haven't heard
> of any way to implement it. This is what I was thinking of: Right now,
> if you run history, it will list out all the recently used commands,
> and then you could run
On Sat, 21 Mar 2009, Ken Irving wrote:
On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 01:01:51PM -0400, Cam Cope wrote:
On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 11:48 AM, Chet Ramey wrote:
Cam Cope wrote:
Combine tab completion with history: when you put ! at the beginning of a
command and use tab completion, it displays history r
On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 01:01:51PM -0400, Cam Cope wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 11:48 AM, Chet Ramey wrote:
> > Cam Cope wrote:
> > > Combine tab completion with history: when you put ! at the beginning of a
> > > command and use tab completion, it displays history results
> >
> > What do you
I'm sorry if the feature has already been implemented, I haven't heard of
any way to implement it. This is what I was thinking of:
Right now, if you run history, it will list out all the recently used
commands, and then you could run !360 to run that history result. Often I'm
looking for a specific
Cam Cope wrote:
> Combine tab completion with history: when you put ! at the beginning of a
> command and use tab completion, it displays history results
What do you mean by `history results'?
--
``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRUc...@case.edu
Cam Cope wrote:
> Combine tab completion with history: when you put ! at the beginning of a
> command and use tab completion, it displays history results
IMHO yet a new history expansion/editing/searching mechanism (there
already are a few) would bloat it even more.
But that's just my opinion.
J
