Re: Problems working with bash.

[Kai Grossjohann <grossjohann@ls6.cs.uni-dortmund.de>]

>>>>> Gertjan Klein writes:

  Gertjan> [...] The principle is this: if you have an empty
  Gertjan> commandline and you type the up arrow, you get the previous
  Gertjan> command.  If you've already typed something, you get
  Gertjan> whatever previous command starts with that.  This combines
  Gertjan> the two functions that bash uses (and needs two keys for)
  Gertjan> into one. [...]

The function history-search-backward which I bound to M-p does exactly
this.  (Similar for M-n, history-search-forward.)

kai
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