Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 10:53:41 -0500 From: "Morse, Richard E." <REMORSE@PARTNERS.ORG> To: 'Drew Tomlinson' <drew@mykitchentable.net>, Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: History Search in tcsh? Message-ID: <375F68784081D511908A00508BE3BB17DDDBDA@phsexch22.mgh.harvard.edu>
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Well, it really stands for "Meta-P". You might also try Alt-P, just to see if that works. Basically, you would know this by reading the Emacs docs, where this convention is most expressed nowadays (it may even have been created for Emacs, but I don't know enough of ancient history...) Ricky -----Original Message----- From: Drew Tomlinson [mailto:drew@mykitchentable.net] Sent: Tuesday 26 February 2002 10:48 AM To: Dan Nelson Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: History Search in tcsh? ----- 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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