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[Daniel Goller <dgoller AT satx.rr.com>]

On Sat, 2006-06-24 at 15:37 -0700, Andrew wrote:
> 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
> 

Would that mean the elegant solution would be to add a query in readline
to "Use pageup/pagedown for searching history?" [n]
Which allows users to notice the choice easier than finding the comments
in the file?

-Daniel

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