Any Bash features you'd like to see?

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On 5/11/05, William Park <opengeometry-FFYn/CNdgSA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> I've just added bunch of string operations into Bash shell.
>     http://freshmeat.net/projects/bashdiff/
> 
> While I'm at it, is there any features that you'd like to see in Bash
> shell?

Unless I totally missed reading on this functionality..  I'd like to
be able to type a partial command which exists in my history, and then
press up/down to cycle through the entries in history which partially
match what I typed.


cd /foo
echo bar


echo <up>  # becomes echo bar
cd <up> #becomes cd /foo


I'd also like to see proper control-left/right to hop words.  I need
to do more reading to get this sort of thing working properly
everywhere.  Half of the apps I use don't recognize proper key
combinations.  =/


As an aside, I'm still very very frustrated making the change from
4dos to bash, and although zsh is pretty good for certain things, its
defaults are very broken from my perspective.  The above is actually
possible in zsh as I understand.. but I never got around to getting it
working.

4dos was a dream to work with and I miss it a lot.. I'm still
contemplating wrapping it in dosemu somehow to do some basic stuff, or
otherwise attempt to bend an existing shell to my will to make it work
the way I want.
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