X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BARRACUDA_BRBL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Andrew DeFaria Subject: Re: First Pass at mintty documentation; etc. Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 23:02:53 -0700 Lines: 28 Message-ID: References: <496A5EDE.9010204@veritech.com> <496A7038.402@gmail.com> <496B7C25.3090705@veritech.com> <496E528D.1090801@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (Windows/20081209) In-Reply-To: X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Mark J. Reed wrote: > True, but that's only one direction of history search, albeit the most > commonly useful one. For those cases where you're somewhere back in > your history and need to search forward, what do you do? In my 25 years of working on such systems I can probably count on 2 fingers the number of times such a situation has arose and what I did was Control-C then Control-R again. > The default binding for history-search-forward is control-S; > unfortunately, that's also usually the stop character and therefore > caught by the terminal before bash ever sees it. So you have to either > change the stop character or rebind the function, and if you rebind > that one you might as well bind the other one to something symmetric. Again, if the need were more than 2 times in 25 years I'd probably just bind Control-E to it or something like that. > Also, while it's fun to customize things in .inputrc (I have mine set > to editing-mode vi, in which incidentally the / key starts a history > search), I do recommend that everyone learn the emacs keys just > because that's what bash defaults to. Sure, if I'm going to be typing > more than a couple commands in a foreign bash setup, the first one I > type is "set -o vi". But for short sessions in someone else's > environment it's handy to be able to use the default bindings. Hmmm... My usual inclination is to type "set -o emacs" when required! ;-) Different strokes... -- Andrew DeFaria What do you do when you see an endangered animal that eats only endangered plants? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/