From: cplum987@gmail.com
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: editing previous command in the *shell* buffer
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2015 13:14:39 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <35be0419-c45d-473f-a4a2-f476c5524aa8@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2618fno44.fsf@Stephens-MBP-2.cable.virginmedia.net>
On Wednesday, April 29, 2015 at 4:57:34 AM UTC-7, Steve Perry wrote:
> > How can I do one or both of the following:
> >
> > ...
> >
> > (2) type the first part of the command, and have M-p search for the
> > previous occurrence of the command that starts with the same pattern
> > I've typed in. This is an xemacs feature I sorely miss. C-s just
> > isn't the same. If often finds all sorts of other cruft you have to
> > skip over.
> > thanks,
>
> I bind M-p and M-n to comint-previous-matching-input-from-input and
> comint-next-matching-input-from-input respectively which I think does
> what you want...
That's real close, but after typing the first few characters of the command, I then have to select them in order to get the matching to work. Otherwise it just works as M-p does by default.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-04-29 20:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-04-27 23:06 editing previous command in the *shell* buffer cplum987
2015-04-28 14:18 ` Doug Lewan
2015-04-28 17:10 ` HASM
2015-04-28 19:39 ` cplum987
2015-04-28 21:29 ` Barry Margolin
2015-04-29 0:20 ` Robert Thorpe
[not found] ` <mailman.1854.1430266854.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-04-29 4:22 ` cplum987
[not found] ` <mailman.1792.1430230730.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-04-28 19:23 ` cplum987
2015-04-29 11:57 ` Steve Perry
2015-04-29 20:14 ` cplum987 [this message]
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