history completion possible?

[Scott Haneda]

On Feb 17, 2010, at 6:59 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

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> On Feb 17, 2010, at 20:57, Scott Haneda wrote:
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>> On Feb 17, 2010, at 6:25 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
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>>> But I've configured my bash to do as you say, which lets me type, say, "svn" and then press the up arrow to see the previous command that started with "svn". However, I don't remember how I did that (it was years ago) and I can't find anything about it in my bash configuration files, so I'm at a loss.
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>> If you ever figure this out, and could post it, I would love to be able to mimic that behavior, it sounds very helpful.
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>> Do you have "history-search-backward" or "history-search-forward" in any of your ~/. files?
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>> Do you have a ~/.inputrc perhaps
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> Thank you, that was it. And it says:
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> set completion-ignore-case on
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> "\e[A": history-search-backward

And that is in ~/.inputrc or some other file?
Any reason you do not have the "forward" counterpart?
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