Windows vs Linux

[Thomas Heller]

"Tim Golden" <tim.golden at viacom-outdoor.co.uk> writes:

> [bonono at gmail.com]
>> But command line in Windows is in no way in the same
>> league as *nix shell. Use <tab> for command completion and up/down
>> arrow or <ctrl-R> to search for history.
>
> [darren kirby]
>> Try ctrl-r in bash, then type your first few letters...
>
> Thanks to both of you. But that much I already knew. It's not
> that I have *no* knowledge about readline: I did at least
> read the manuals when I got stuck! But as far as I can tell
> from my experience and from the docs -- and I'm not near a 
> Linux box at the mo -- having used ctrl-r to recall line x 
> in the history, you can't just down-arrow to recall x+1, x+2 etc. 
> Or can you?

I don't know.  When I discovered this I uninstalled the (windows)
readline module from my Python installation.

> (Sorry guys; I realise this is more stuff for comp.os.linux or
> comp.commandlineshells.bash or whatever it's called. But if
> someone *did* know the answer, I'd be really happy!)

;-)

Thomas