From: Robert Thorpe <rt@robertthorpeconsulting.com>
To: cplum987@gmail.com
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: editing previous command in the *shell* buffer
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2015 01:20:43 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877fsvwzs4.fsf@robertthorpeconsulting.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <36243f68-c9ad-4185-af20-215cceecf0b3@googlegroups.com> (cplum987@gmail.com)
cplum987@gmail.com writes:
> [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 <RET>. As an
> example, I just tried "M-r cd<RET>". It found a command with "CD" in
> the middle of it. I wanted the one that started with "cd".
It's a regex as Barry Margolin mentioned, that's one way to narrow
things down. Another is to search further. M-r initiates a backwards
regex isearch of history. When you meet a match C-r will continue the
search back to the next match. (Typing M-r again switches from regex
search to normal search).
There are quite a few other commands available. See (info "(emacs)
Shell Ring")
> With xemacs, "cd M-p" would have found the most recent occurrence of a
> command 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 <RET> first and hope it
> grabs the right one. Also, 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 chars of the command, and then
> type M-p until xemacs finds the one I want.
This sounds useful. There's probably a package on Melpa or Marmalade to
do it. But I don't know precisely where to start looking.
BR,
Robert Thorpe
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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 [this message]
[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
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