Re: incremental history search

[Eric Mangold <teratorn@world-net.net>]

On Sat, 21 Feb 2004 16:50:48 +0100, Thorsten Kampe 
<thorsten@thorstenkampe.de> wrote:

> * Anthony Iano-Fletcher (2004-02-21 15:39 +0100)
>> history-beginning-search-backward and history-beginning-search-forward
>> were designed to repeatedly match whatever was to the left of the cursor
>> with one's history. The cursor shouldn't move or else a repeated match
>> would not be looking for the original prefix.
>
> I know that, thanks. I was referring to the *special case where I
> haven't typed anything and the command line is empty* and there is
> *nothing to search for*.

If I just want to move up or down sequentially I use C-p and C-n. I guess 
you need emacs bindings on for this (bindkey -me). These commands do 
position the cursor at the end of the line.

> In this case "up-line-or-search" does simply
> a "up-line" and moves the cursor to the end of any recalled command
> line from history. "history-beginning-search-backward" does a
> "up-line", too, in this case, but leaves the cursor where it was (at
> the beginning of each recalled command line from history).
>
> Both approaches are useful in certain cases but in my opinion the
> dynamic movement to the end of the line is more useful because I
> manipulate the end of commands more often than the beginning.
>
> Thorsten
>