From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Wed Oct 18 22:43:54 1995
Subject: history-search-backward
From: John Eaton <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: Jerry Lynch <lynch dot 94 at osu dot edu>
Cc: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 1995 22:43:54 -0500

Jerry Lynch <lynch dot 94 at osu dot edu> wrote:

: Does octave offer any "history-search-backward" or 
: "history-search-forward"?  In "tcsh", these are listed in the man pages 
: as " EMACS Multi-character and 8 bit bindings " and appear as:
: 
:              "^[N"  or "M-N"          ->  history-search-forward
:              "^[P"  or "M-P"          ->  history-search-backward
: 
: So that if I start to type a command, typing meta-p after typing the 
: first few letters will search backward in the history to the most recent 
: command that also began with those letters.
: 
: Is this possible in octave?

This will work in the next release.  You will also be able to bind
these functions to other keys in your ~/.inputrc file.

jwe