2010/11/7 Michele Zaffalon michele.zaffalon@gmail.com:
Hi all,
Hi Michele
I am using Gambit from the terminal: is it it possible to change the terminal behaviour so that if you type a partial word and hit up arrow, the terminal tries to complete it with a command from the past command history that matches the partial word, not just with the last command?
This behaviour is, as far as I know, not very common. Most pervasive completion systems are based on the readline library, which Gambit reimplemented if I remember correctly. So, <up> will always give you the previous command in history (though some of us believe that the previous S-exp would be better). In your case, what you want is to use <tab>, form completion. And this works well. I do not know however if this can be restrained to symbols that are in the history, or if the suggestion order may consider history first.
Cheers,
P!
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