From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16913 invoked by alias); 15 Jan 2009 03:19:30 -0000 Received: (qmail 16900 invoked by uid 22791); 15 Jan 2009 03:19:29 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BARRACUDA_BRBL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from main.gmane.org (HELO ciao.gmane.org) (80.91.229.2) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Thu, 15 Jan 2009 03:18:52 +0000 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LNIkp-00028r-PK for cygwin@cygwin.com; Thu, 15 Jan 2009 03:18:47 +0000 Received: from www.defaria.com ([65.101.22.21]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 15 Jan 2009 03:18:47 +0000 Received: from Andrew by www.defaria.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 15 Jan 2009 03:18:47 +0000 To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Andrew DeFaria Subject: Re: First Pass at mintty documentation; etc. Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 05:24:00 -0000 Message-ID: References: <496A5EDE.9010204@veritech.com> <496A7038.402@gmail.com> <496B7C25.3090705@veritech.com> <496E528D.1090801@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (Windows/20081209) In-Reply-To: <496E528D.1090801@gmail.com> X-Stationery: 0.4.8.12 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2009-01/txt/msg00451.txt.bz2 Andy Koppe wrote: > Lee D. Rothstein wrote: > >> > "\e[1;5A": history-search-backward >> > "\e[1;5B": history-search-forward >> >> Perhaps I don't understand this 'bash' feature, but it doesn't seem >> to work for me. > Start typing a command, press Ctrl-Up, and it finds the previous line > in the history that started like that. Why not simply type Ctrl-R then the first few letters of a command (or some letters in the middle of a command). Works great! Requires no support from any terminal emulator... -- Andrew DeFaria Old age is when you still have something on the ball but you are just too tired to bounce it. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/