Bug 500989

Summary: RFE: enhancement for /etc/inputrc pageup, pagedown keys
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Stefan Assmann <sassmann>
Component: setupAssignee: Ondrej Vasik <ovasik>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
Severity: medium Docs Contact:
Priority: low    
Version: rawhideCC: ovasik, pknirsch
Target Milestone: ---   
Target Release: ---   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version: setup-2.8.5-1.fc12 Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Story Points: ---
Clone Of: Environment:
Last Closed: 2009-05-20 12:35:36 UTC Type: ---
Regression: --- Mount Type: ---
Documentation: --- CRM:
Verified Versions: Category: ---
oVirt Team: --- RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team: --- Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:

Description Stefan Assmann 2009-05-15 11:58:31 UTC 
Description of problem:
/etc/inputrc currently has the following default:
"\e[5~": beginning-of-history
"\e[6~": end-of-history
This maps beginning of bash history and end of bash history to the keys pageup, pagedown. 

I'd suggest to replace these with:
"\e[5~": history-search-backward
"\e[6~": history-search-forward
This maps history auto completion to pageup, pagedown keys. So what this does is, if you type the first few letters of an already typed commandline and press pageup (pagedown) the already started line will be auto completed with what is found in your bash history.

Reason for doing so:
Bash history has a backlog of 1000 commands, does somebody really wants to go all the way back 1000 commands and use the again frequently? Not so sure...
Instead make good use of these keys by using history completion.

Example:
# ls /etc/inputrc -alh
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 801 2009-04-10 10:42 /etc/inputrc
... (lots of other command)
# ls /et<pageup>
will complete to
# ls /etc/inputrc -alh
Comment 1 Ondrej Vasik 2009-05-20 12:35:36 UTC 
Ok, as it is default in Gentoo/OpenSuSe and suggested in Debian/Ubuntu, I'll change this that way in RAWHIDE - as this mapping is more useful than previous start/end of history. Changed in setup-2.8.5-1.fc12, closing RAWHIDE.