Browsing the history of commands. Inconsistency between Bash and Emacs

[Dani Moncayo]

Hello, Bash developers,

(I know little about Bash, so I apologize beforehand if I say
something inaccurate or nonsensical)

Bug #16740 was filed today against the Emacs package, asking to remove
an inconsistency between the keys employed by Emacs and Bash to browse
the history of commands.  See:

  http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2014-02/msg01082.html

Emacs uses M-p/M-n to browse the minibuffer history (and C-p/C-n to
move to the previous/next line in a multi-line buffer), whereas Bash
uses C-n/C-p for browsing the command history (and doesn't use M-p/M-n
for anything, AFAIK).

It would be nice to remove this inconsistency (this is the obvious
part), and IMO TRT would be to make Bash behave like Emacs, that is:
1. Use M-p/M-n to browse the command history (instead of the current C-p/C-n).
2. Use C-p/C-n to move to the previous/next line, in the current
command being edited.

WDYT?

-- 
Dani Moncayo