From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Barry Margolin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: editing previous command in the *shell* buffer Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2015 17:29:58 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <87sibkxjpf.fsf@127.0.0.1> <36243f68-c9ad-4185-af20-215cceecf0b3@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1430256621 23080 80.91.229.3 (28 Apr 2015 21:30:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2015 21:30:21 +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 23:30:21 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 1YnD59-0002LR-LO for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 28 Apr 2015 23:30:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35912 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YnD59-0004Sp-4C for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 28 Apr 2015 17:30:19 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!feeder.erje.net!1.eu.feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!barmar.motzarella.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 29 Injection-Info: barmar.motzarella.org; posting-host="2be9e9f5dd9af768b8861af71b85fc28"; logging-data="21451"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19SFjHhnspjBwrwiTfARTfq" User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.3b3 (Intel Mac OS X) Cancel-Lock: sha1:TJZJBIk0CTy5aqcy5o2r9ZOPN4c= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:211769 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:104051 Archived-At: In article <36243f68-c9ad-4185-af20-215cceecf0b3@googlegroups.com>, cplum987@gmail.com wrote: > On Tuesday, April 28, 2015 at 10:10:22 AM UTC-7, HASM wrote: > > > > > 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. > > > > 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 just > tried "M-r cd". It found a command with "CD" in the middle of it. I > wanted the one that started with "cd". The parameter is a regular expression, so use "^cd" to find a command that begins with "cd". -- Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu Arlington, MA *** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me ***