RE: [h-e-w] Using control keys in bash shell within emacs

[Sprenger, Karel]

Jeff,

 

Since bash (or cmd or whatever the shell program is) is run 'underneath' emacs by comint, you use emacs control keys.  To get the previous command you use M-p.  If you use bash as your shell program, shell mode will provide you with bash' history saved from previous bash sessions in ~/.bash_history.  Also note the In/Out menu which offers such nifty things as "Expand history before point" and "List input history".  The nice thing is that most (if not all) of this is standard comint stuff, so you can just as well use it when you are running sqlplus (using sql.el).

 

Cheers,

Karel

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Rancier [mailto:address@hidden
Sent: donderdag 10 oktober 2002 15:12
To: Emacs Help (Windows)
Subject: [h-e-w] Using control keys in bash shell within emacs

Hi,

I'm using cygwin bash, 2.05b, as my NTEmacs shell (GNU Emacs 21.2.1
(i386-msvc-nt5.1.2600) of 2002-03-19 on buffy).  Is there any way to have
(e.g.) C-p, scroll through the history, instead of the default emacs
behaviour of moving to the previous line in a buffer.  I tried:

    set -o emacs

in my .bash_profile/.bashrc, but that didn't work.  Works fine when I kick
off cygwin bash outside of NTEmacs.  If this kind of thing doesn't work, can
someone explain the advantage of kicking off a bash shell inside of Emacs?

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Thanks,
Jeff