Re: Emacs Environment Variables

[Johan Bockgård]

Sven Utcke <utcke+news@informatik.uni-hamburg.de> writes:

> bojohan+news@dd.chalmers.se (Johan Bockgård) writes:
>
>> history-search-backward
>
> Thanks.  How do I get this bound to a key?

    # M-p
    "\ep": history-search-backward

in a readline config file*, or

    bind '"\ep": history-search-backward'

in a bash config file.

> And does it only search for lines _starting_ with the search-string

Yes.


[*] ~/.inputrc
    (info "(bashref) Sample Init File")
    bash man page, READLINE section

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Johan Bockgård