From: Bob Rossi <bob@brasko.net>
To: Michael Veksler <VEKSLER@il.ibm.com>
Cc: Greg Law <greg@greglaw.net>,
gdb@sources.redhat.com, Julian Smith <jules@op59.net>
Subject: Re: Using C-s to forward search command history
Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2005 13:20:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050820132023.GA20235@white> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <OFE0249496.308EEDD5-ONC2257063.00433E16-C2257063.0043B546@il.ibm.com>
On Sat, Aug 20, 2005 at 03:19:33PM +0300, Michael Veksler wrote:
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> Greg Law wrote on 19/08/2005 16:12:43:
> > If I've read the info pages correctly, I can use C-s in order to search
> > the command history forwards. However, this sequence also seems to be
> > the control sequence to suspend the terminal :-(
> >
> > Have I misunderstood, or is there a way round this? (It would be very
> > useful for me to be able to search forwards).
>
> This is a terminal feature that interferes with your C-s use,
> it is not a readline issue. The following line works for me.
> I put it in my .kshrc, .cshrc, .zshrc startup files after
> making sure this is an interactive shell:
> stty -ixon
That's interesting. Is the (stop/start) ^s/^q feature of the terminal
even useful these days? Why is it defaulted on?
Bob Rossi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-08-20 13:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-08-19 13:12 Greg Law
2005-08-19 13:31 ` Bob Rossi
2005-08-20 12:18 ` Michael Veksler
2005-08-20 13:20 ` Bob Rossi [this message]
2005-08-20 16:05 ` Michael Veksler
2005-08-20 17:23 ` Andreas Schwab
2005-08-20 17:55 ` Dan Kegel
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