Re: emulate readline

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Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa <at> Web.DE> writes:

> 
> C-x ESC ESC invokes the function repeat-complex-command. This works  
> outside of a terminal in GNU Emacs. It does not rewind a shell command  
> once invoked in a *shell* buffer or something similar.

Thats cool, but not what I want.

> > insdid my M-x (and when I open files too).
> 
> What is your "M-x"? 

I want to be able to replay all the commands I have typed in, subsetted by their
initial string which I have so far typed into the minibuffer, with each press of
my up-arrow key.  I don't know how to be any more specific or clearer.  This
behavior is possible at the bash shell prompt when you configure inputrc
correctly, but I want it within emacs when I am cycling through arbitrary
commands after typing M-x.

If you haven't done this in a shell, you probably dont have any idea what I am
talking about, but I am not sure how to be any more explicit -- I give an
example in my first email.

>Has it a documented name one can find and look up  
> in the GNU Emacs documentation?  (Then use it and not any slang one or  
> two people might be using when together.) 

If I knew, I would happily, but I don't.  

> And what are your  
> parentheses standing for?

They are just parantheses, not a command (like this).