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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