From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 20568 invoked by alias); 16 Jan 2009 06:55:41 -0000 Received: (qmail 20558 invoked by uid 22791); 16 Jan 2009 06:55:40 -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; Fri, 16 Jan 2009 06:54:52 +0000 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LNibR-0006m2-1A for cygwin@cygwin.com; Fri, 16 Jan 2009 06:54:49 +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 ; Fri, 16 Jan 2009 06:54:49 +0000 Received: from Andrew by www.defaria.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 16 Jan 2009 06:54:49 +0000 To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Andrew DeFaria Subject: Re: keycodes Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 10:05:00 -0000 Message-ID: References: <496A5EDE.9010204@veritech.com> <496A7038.402@gmail.com> <496B7C25.3090705@veritech.com> <496E528D.1090801@gmail.com> <496EC898.1090504@gmail.com> <17393e3e0901150749sf20dd7em7af71ea7e7fd4834@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (Windows/20081209) In-Reply-To: <17393e3e0901150749sf20dd7em7af71ea7e7fd4834@mail.gmail.com> 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/msg00488.txt.bz2 Matt Wozniski wrote: > On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 1:05 AM, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > >> Andy Koppe wrote: >> >>> Andrew DeFaria 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... >>>> >>> Yes, obviously you can bind the history search to any key you like. >>> >> The points were, since you seemed to have missed them, that 1) that's the >> default binding for bash >> > > It's a default binding for bash that does something different than the > suggested binding. It's great that you can do both, but they're not > the same. I know of both, use both, and find history-search-backward > and history-search-forward much more useful more of the time than > reverse-search-history and forward-search-history. > > >> and 2) it doesn't require MinTTY, nor xterm, nor >> any particular terminal emulator. IOW it works out of the box, in fact works >> in Cygwin's bash Windows console window >> > > It works with all terminal emulators that are set up to send CTRL+R as > the single byte 0x12 - nearly all do by default, but there's no reason > they have to. xterm can be configured to send CSI 27;5;114 ~ > instead. Andy's suggestion works with all terminal emulators that > send CSI 1;5 A for CTRL+UP - again, most do, but not all. There's no > difference between the two here, apart from one binding being default > and the other being added with .inputrc. > > >> and does not even restrict you to >> locating only the start of a command. All win, win, win situations as I see >> it. >> > > The fact that it's "restricted" to only working at the start of the > line is why it's more useful more of the time for me. I sometimes > want to find a command that contained 'foobar' as one of its arguments > somewhere on the line - but, much more often, I want to find that > cryptic ctags invocation, or that find command, etc. If I know what > the line begins with, then searching with CTRL+R just gives me false > positives that I need to skip over. > > ~Matt > Like I said - to each his own... -- Andrew DeFaria Old dog still learning - please don't shoot yet -- 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/