bash completion

Constantinos Maltezos pandarsson at yahoo.com
Mon Mar 3 16:27:56 UTC 2008


On Monday 03 March 2008 4:19:43 Francisco Borges wrote:
> 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".

This is exactly what I was looking for, thank you.  I know of the other, but 
when you get used to doing things a certain way... well, you know.




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