[Pythonmac-SIG] CommandHistoryPatch

[Joseph J. Strout]

At 10:48 AM -0700 10/18/99, Chris Barker wrote:

>Why not bind "previous command" to the "up arrow"?
>That's how it is at the Unix command line, and it's very handy, and
>easy. I can't imagine what else you would want the up arrow for.

You use the up arrow for moving the cursor up, e.g., in combination 
with the shift key to select text for copying and such.

Granted, this isn't a terribly useful thing to do (compared to 
command history), and probably nobody would miss it too much.  But 
the console window is a text-editing window, like any other, and it 
might be hard to muck with its cursor interface in such a fundamental 
way.  Just guessing here, though.

Cheers,
-- Joe

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