Re: not necessarily putting the cursor at end of line

[Chet Ramey]

> So did that wishlist item for allowing the user to have control where
> the cursor ends up upon ^P, not just always the end of the line, ever
> get implemented?  It would be handy if wanting to type e.g.,
> $ a a a a a a a
> $ a b a a a a a
> $ a c a a a a a

This is from the release notes for bash-2.05a, which was released over
three years ago:

2.  New Features in Readline
        [...]
f.  New bindable variable `history-preserve-point'.  If set, the history
    code attempts to place the user at the same location on each history
    line retrived with previous-history or next-history.

-- 
``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
( ``Discere est Dolere'' -- chet )
                                                Live...Laugh...Love
Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU    chet@po.cwru.edu    http://tiswww.tis.cwru.edu/~chet/