Making the command line more powerful - configuration help needed

[Colin Watson]

On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 09:37:29PM +0100, Gábor Iglói wrote:
> I've seen in some of the distros that the bash/terminal is capable of
> a very cool command history search - if I type in the beginning of a
> command and I press PgUp/PgDown I get back to my previously executed
> commands beginning with the typed-in letters.

I think it depends on your terminal, which is probably why we don't
enable it by default, but putting these two lines in ~/.inputrc works
for me in pterm:

"\e[5~": history-search-backward
"\e[6~": history-search-forward

If that doesn't work, run 'cat', press PageUp and PageDown to see what
the keycodes are, and substitute "\e" in place of "\[". For me, PageUp
produces "^[[5~" and PageDown produces "^[[6~", so you should get the
idea from the above.

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]