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Re: autocomplete [message #43384 is a reply to message #43347]

Wed, 06 April 2005 17:53

JD Smith
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Registered: December 1999

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On Wed, 06 Apr 2005 09:24:31 -0600, savoie wrote:

> savoie@nsidc.org writes:
>
>> JD Smith <jdsmith@as.arizona.edu> writes:
>>
>>> On Fri, 01 Apr 2005 15:56:08 +0200, maarten wrote:
>>
>>> I just discovered C-c M-r, which is comint's way of doing a search for
>>> previous input based on the existing input, without any prompting.
>>
>> Oh! look at that. I'll be replacing that right away. :) Not that I don't
>> love your hack....
>
> I spoke too soon. The comint-previous-matching-input-from-input, only
> searches back from what's on the beginning of the line.
>
> so if I have a print of a strange variable name, with the comint way I have
> to start the line with
> IDL> print, beg[up]
>
> and that will get substitued with
> IDL> print, beginning_of_a_stupidly_long_variable_name
>
> with jds-history-search-up I only need the beg[up]
>
> IDL> beg[up]
>
> Just a note. :)

What if you just want the previous command, how do you do that (I forget
if I handled that)?

JD

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[Message index]

		autocomplete By: maarten on Wed, 30 March 2005 00:48
		Re: autocomplete By: JD Smith on Thu, 07 April 2005 14:46
		Re: autocomplete By: ismxray@yahoo.com on Fri, 08 April 2005 06:52
		Re: autocomplete By: savoie on Thu, 07 April 2005 09:43
		Re: autocomplete By: ismxray@yahoo.com on Thu, 07 April 2005 07:02
		Re: autocomplete By: JD Smith on Wed, 06 April 2005 17:53
		Re: autocomplete By: savoie on Wed, 06 April 2005 08:24
		Re: autocomplete By: JD Smith on Fri, 08 April 2005 11:38

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