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Re: Command Completion and up-arrow



2008/10/28 Corwin Zechar <czech@xxxxxxxxx>:
> Hi -
>
> In tcsh, when I put the following lines in my .tcshrc:
>
>       bindkey -k up history-search-backward
>       bindkey -k down history-search-forward
>
> The effect is that when I type one or more characters and press up-arrow,
> tcsh attempts to match commands in my command history to the characters I
> have typed.
>
> Is there a way to do this in zsh?

yes

> Do I need to write a completion function?

no

Just use the same commands as you used in tcsh, but drop the -k and
you have to write the literal code for "up" and "down", ie something
like ^[[A and ^[[B.

-- 
Mikael Magnusson



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