2014/09/28 20:17 "Cindy-Sue Causey" <butterflybytes@gmail.com>:
>
> On 9/27/14, Joel Rees <joel.rees@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Booted this morning, started my usual pattern of bringing the appropriate
> > apt-get commands up from history. (I'm lazy, okay?)
> >
> > Had a bunch of unicode proxies and a reference to a backup directory that
> > I haven't accessed in several months in my most recent three lines, then
> > the history that should have been there.
> >
> > I can suppose that the arrow keys got accidentally pushed and brought up
> > some really old line of history, but I'd like to hear if anyone else has
> > seen history strangeness in the last several days.
>
>
> I do A LOT of computing from terminals... and use arrow up and down
> ALL THE TIME.. Autocomplete would so ROCK!
Heh. Yeah, I have avoided autocomplete, in general, until this last year. Hitting tab on an empty command line turned me off when I first discovered it. Prefer globbing (shell regular expressions). Lately I seem to have a bit more trouble remembering what's in the path globbing will see, so I get lazy and use completion sometimes.
> My history is inconsistently reflected because I open SO MANY windows
> all day every day.. The most recent history that comes up seems to
> depend on what terminal was closed last during the last session..
That's not the kind of funny text I'm talking about. I'm talking about things I've never typed at the comand line in any shell window I've opened logged in as that user, and unicode proxies I haven't seen in a shell window in any Linux I've used in more than ten years.
> But that's every day, that's not *months* worth so it's not really any
> help in your case.. Still thought I'd mention it with the thought
> being it might help ease someone's mind out there as you discuss
> what's going on with yours.. :)
Thanks for the thoughts. :-)
> Cindy
>
> PS A little tip: For anyone who hasn't discovered it yet, CTRL+SHIFT+T
> is a keyboard shortcut to bring up a terminal in some Debian based
> distros out there.
>
> --
> Cindy-Sue Causey
> Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA
>
> * runs with duct tape *