From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: cplum987@gmail.com Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: editing previous command in the *shell* buffer Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2015 12:39:58 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <36243f68-c9ad-4185-af20-215cceecf0b3@googlegroups.com> References: <87sibkxjpf.fsf@127.0.0.1> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1430250032 6939 80.91.229.3 (28 Apr 2015 19:40:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2015 19:40:32 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 28 21:40:32 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YnBMt-0000YX-2W for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 28 Apr 2015 21:40:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35616 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YnBMs-00024f-EB for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 28 Apr 2015 15:40:30 -0400 X-Received: by 10.70.135.10 with SMTP id po10mr30564429pdb.2.1430249998784; Tue, 28 Apr 2015 12:39:58 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.182.142.97 with SMTP id rv1mr86114obb.17.1430249998709; Tue, 28 Apr 2015 12:39:58 -0700 (PDT) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!l13no11309453iga.0!news-out.google.com!n7ni19602igk.0!nntp.google.com!l13no11309452iga.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: <87sibkxjpf.fsf@127.0.0.1> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=148.87.19.218; posting-account=rIGGBgoAAAAEMg3u-3XZX2iW8W_yvSoQ Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 148.87.19.218 User-Agent: G2/1.0 Injection-Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2015 19:39:58 +0000 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:211768 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:104050 Archived-At: On Tuesday, April 28, 2015 at 10:10:22 AM UTC-7, HASM wrote: >=20 > > How can I do one or both of the following: > > > > (1) Find a previous command in the *shell* buffer via search > > C-s, and have pressing enter insert the command as the > > current command, but without execution. >=20 > Doesn't M-r work for you? > M-r runs the command comint-history-isearch-backward-regexp, > -- HASM [BTW, I meant C-r, not C-s. My brain can never recall why my fingers type.] M-r seems to be a step in the right direction. However, you don't know what= command line it will grab until after you press . As an example, I ju= st tried "M-r cd". It found a command with "CD" in the middle of it. = I wanted the one that started with "cd". With xemacs, "cd M-p" would have found the most recent occurrence of a comm= and that started with "cd", and entered it as the current command so I can = edit it (it doesn't take you to the location in *shell* of the match like C= -r does). No need to press first and hope it grabs the right one. Als= o, each time I type M-p after that, it will grab an even older instance of = a command that starts with those same chars. So I just type the first few c= hars of the command, and then type M-p until xemacs finds the one I want.