On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 01:01:51PM -0400, Cam Cope wrote:
On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 11:48 AM, Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> wrote:
Cam Cope wrote:
Combine tab completion with history: when you put ! at the beginning of a
command and use tab completion, it displays history results
What do you mean by `history results'?
I'm sorry if the feature has already been implemented, I haven't heard of
any way to implement it. This is what I was thinking of:
Right now, if you run history, it will list out all the recently used
commands, and then you could run !360 to run that history result. Often I'm
looking for a specific command that I don't want to retype the options for.
Instead of having to do history | grep commandname and then !###, just start
typing !commandname and hit tab to see history entries that start with it.
This sounds a lot like what you get with the reverse-search-history
command, bound to control-r (C-r), a great feature indeed.