Re: use of Alt-p (more info)

[Asbjørn Sæbø]

On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 11:46:24AM -0500, Mike Miller wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Jun 2004, Mike Miller wrote:
> 
> >Simple question:  On older versions of Octave, I could type a few 
> >characters, then use Alt-p to cycle through previous commands that began 
> >with those characters (a la tcsh/emacs).  [...]

> I am seeing identical behavior in Cygwin (v. 2.1.49, downloaded yesterday) 
> and on Solaris (v. 2.1.46 compiled with readline).  I can recall commands 
> with Ctrl-p or Ctrl-n and edit them normally using Ctrl-d, Ctrl-w, Ctrl-y, 
> Ctrl-h, Ctrl-b, Ctrl-f, Ctrl-a, and Ctrl-e.  It is only when I use the Alt 
> key that I have problems.

Here (Octave on Debian Linux) I use Ctrl-r.  First I type Ctrl-r, then 
letters from the command I want to find.  (The letters does not have to 
be at the start of the command, either.)

Asbj.S.
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