bash completion

[Francisco Borges]

On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 11:03 AM, Constantinos Maltezos
<pandarsson at yahoo.com> wrote:
> If there are any command line experts here, maybe you can answer a quick
>  question:
>
>  On my desktop machine, bash allows me to type a partial command, press page up
>  and cycle through the commands in my history that start with what I typed.
>  How do I set up bash so it'll work that way on this machine?

I am not a bash user ;-) but I think you have the bash function
"history-search-backward" bound to PageUp.

>From the bash manual
history-search-backward
              Search  backward  through  the history for the string of
characters between the
              start of the current line and the point.  This is a
non-incremental search.

Try using:

bind -P

to see if that function is really bound to page up (or to discover
which is the function bound to the key); and then use bind ("man
bash-builtins") to bind page up to it on your .bashrc.

AFAIK to get a "page up" literal, you should hit C-v (control-v), and
then hit 'page-up".

HTH,
-- 
Francisco