Any Bash features you'd like to see?

[William Park]

On Fri, May 13, 2005 at 03:39:14PM -0400, Sy wrote:
> 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

man bash
man readline
    - history-search-forward
    - history-search-backward
    - .inputrc

> 
> 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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