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[Andrew <afrayedknot AT thefrayedknot.armory.com>]

On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 11:06:40PM +0300, Juuso Alasuutari wrote:
> I wanted to ask here if anyone objects to a change to inputrc that Daniel 
> told 
> me about. It would be to replace the present behavior of page up & page 
> down 
> keys in readline - now they go to beginning and end of history, when they 
> could be used as search buttons. Here's a quote from #sourcemage:
> 
> <+morfic> "\e[5~": history-search-backward    and "\e[6~": 
> history-search-forward   change them to that
> <+iuso> morfic: hm, searching forward & backward is different than using up 
> and down keys?
> <+iuso> morfic: oh i get it, search finds the previous/next command in 
> history 
> corresponding to what's presently written?
> <+morfic> iuso:   comment the original lines, add the ones i pasted, then 
> start typing a command you use a lot but have not typed in a while, hit 
> pageup, if it is still in history, it's ready to use
> <+morfic> iuso: exactly
> 

Since it modifies default behavior, it needs to be optional.
That is our philosophy.

-Andrew

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