Re: [Nano-devel] RFC: limiting the amount of position history

[Mike Frysinger]

On 13 Jan 2016 21:23, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 13, 2016, at 20:27, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > On 13 Jan 2016 19:46, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> > > What shortcuts would you then like to
> > > use to open a previously opened file?
> > 
> > the ones related to searching the history.  i'm guessing you don't
> > use things like history-search-backward and history-search-forward
> > in your shell.  that allows you to type in the first few chars and
> > then search based on that.
> 
> I do use ^R plus some characters on the command line to
> retrieve commands I've used before.  But the history of
> file positions isn't used for that in nano.  Strangely,
> when wanting to search for something in nano, one can
> type the first few characters of a previous search string
> and then Tab will cycle through the ones that start with
> those characters.

yes, i was thinking of search history.  we can't rebind behavior there
afaict.  imo, ideally we'd just load the existing readline inputrc files.

> But when trying to open a file, Tab will just try to
> complete the first few characters to a filename in the
> current directory, and if there are multiple candidates
> it will beep and a second Tab will bring up a list...

would be nice if there were history here

> Weird, specialized functionality.

how so ?
-mike

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