[Pythonmac-SIG] CommandHistoryPatch

[Rob Managan]

>
>I think in this case we can have our cake and eat it. Mark Hammond's PythonWin
>does more-or-less what you say here: with the arrow keys you can walk to a
>certain line. If you are on any line and you start typing[*] the line is
>copied to the bottom line of the screen (minus any prompts prefixing it),
>along with your cursor and your edits are being done. And, of course, if you
>want to use the mouse in stead of the cursor keys to position the cursor that
>also works.
>
>[*] I think that you have to hit an extra return in PythonWin to do the
>copying, but I don't see a good reason for copying that behaviour.
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The plotting program Igor does something similar. The up arrow 
selects a line at a time in the command history. Then an Enter copies 
any selection  to the input line. Just another idea on what may work.

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