From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 26 8: 2:24 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from blackhelicopters.org (geburah.blackhelicopters.org [209.69.178.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9069D37B402 for ; Tue, 26 Feb 2002 08:02:20 -0800 (PST) Received: (from mwlucas@localhost) by blackhelicopters.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g1QG2Gq55739; Tue, 26 Feb 2002 11:02:16 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mwlucas) Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 11:02:16 -0500 From: Michael Lucas To: Drew Tomlinson Cc: Dan Nelson , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: History Search in tcsh? Message-ID: <20020226110216.A55665@blackhelicopters.org> References: <01c801c1bedc$2b7d7790$f82a6ba5@lc.ca.gov> <20020226154352.GE3595@dan.emsphone.com> <01e801c1bedc$f06b2200$f82a6ba5@lc.ca.gov> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <01e801c1bedc$f06b2200$f82a6ba5@lc.ca.gov>; from drew@mykitchentable.net on Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 07:47:47AM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 07:47:47AM -0800, Drew Tomlinson wrote: > Thanks, that was driving me nuts! I have one other "dumb" question. > How should I have known that M-p equals ESC-p? Through your Secret Ninja UNIX decoder ring. Serously, you'd stumble across this in a book on the shell. Knowledge that esc/meta is one of those things that old hands Just Know, and new users cry about. :-( If some new user felt like it, a friendly shell intro would be a wonderful thing to add to our documentation... ==ml -- Michael Lucas mwlucas@FreeBSD.org, mwlucas@BlackHelicopters.org my FreeBSD column: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/q/Big_Scary_Daemons http://www.blackhelicopters.org/~mwlucas/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message