Re: how to automatic reverse i search when pressing up arrow at prompt with text?

[Keith Goodman]

On 5/20/05, Ben Barrowes <address@hidden> wrote:
> Is there any way to have octave automatically complete partially entered
> commands at the prompt with prior commands without having to reverse i
> search?

Yes. And it is already in 2.9.3.

To add it yourself to an earlier version (and to add it to your shell
as well) just make an ~/.inputrc file that contains:

## This file configures the behavior of line-input editing for all
## Octave users when Octave is configured to use GNU Readline library
## for input-line editing.

## history-search-backward:
## 
##   Search backward through the history for the string of characters
##   between the start of the current line and the point.  This is a
##   non-incremental search.  Bound to "\e[A", the ANSI escape
##   sequence for the UP arrow.

"\e[A": history-search-backward

## history-search-forward:
## 
##   Search forward through the history for the string of characters
##   between the start of the current line and the point.  This is a
##   non-incremental search.  Bound to "\e[B", the ANSI escape
##   sequence for the DOWN arrow.

"\e[B": history-search-forward



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