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From: "Drew Tomlinson" <drew@mykitchentable.net>
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Subject: Re: History Search in tcsh?
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 07:47:47 -0800
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Nelson" <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To: "Drew Tomlinson" <drew@mykitchentable.net>
Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 7:43 AM
Subject: Re: History Search in tcsh?


> In the last episode (Feb 26), Drew Tomlinson said:
> > I'm trying to learn to use my shell to it's full potential.  In
reading
> > the man page for tcsh, I see that I can search the history for a
> > command.  However, I don't understand what keystrokes I need to use
to
> > search.  From the man page:
> >
> > history-search-backward (M-p, M-P)
> >
> > So how do I enter "M-p"?  What does it really want?  If it matters,
I am
> > using SecureCRT with VT-100 emulation.
>
> ESC-P

Thanks, that was driving me nuts!  I have one other "dumb" question.
How should I have known that M-p equals ESC-p?

Drew


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