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From: despen@verizon.net
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: emulate readline
Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2011 13:52:34 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <icbp0j5kt9.fsf@verizon.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.1.1302109600.30021.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org

fork <forkandwait@gmail.com> writes:

> Is there a way to get the behavior of this (super cool) 
> readline behavior in the minibuffer?  
>
> In my .inputrc I have this:
>
> "\e[A": history-search-backward
> "\e[B": history-search-forward
> "\eOA": history-search-backward
> "\eOB": history-search-forward
>
> So in bash I can type "ps", hit the up-arrow, and get the most recent
>  command that started with these two letters (e.g. "psql -D foobar").  
> The next time I hit up-arrow, I get "psql -U fork -D forksdb", etc.
> I would like to type M-x in emacs, then cycle through previous
>  commands like this.

M-p


       reply	other threads:[~2011-04-06 17:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.1.1302109600.30021.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-04-06 17:52 ` despen [this message]
2011-04-06 19:01   ` emulate readline fork
2011-04-07  4:45     ` Kevin Rodgers
2011-04-06 19:06   ` Richard Riley
2011-04-06 17:04 fork
2011-04-06 18:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-06 18:53   ` fork
     [not found]   ` <mailman.11.1302116146.29474.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-04-06 19:14     ` despen
2011-04-06 19:59       ` fork
     [not found]       ` <mailman.19.1302119959.29474.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-04-06 23:44         ` despen
2011-04-07 16:44           ` fork
2011-04-06 19:19 ` Peter Dyballa
2011-04-06 19:23   ` fork
2011-04-06 19:36     ` Peter Dyballa
2011-04-06 19:44       ` fork
2011-04-06 20:21         ` Peter Dyballa
2011-04-06 20:29           ` fork
2011-04-06 20:45         ` Drew Adams
2011-04-06 21:23           ` fork
2011-04-07  1:48 ` Le Wang
2011-04-07 15:09   ` fork
     [not found] ` <mailman.0.1302140940.25667.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-04-07 10:32   ` Richard Riley

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