Re: Command history in the shell buffer

Thanks for all the hints, I'll try them.

On Dec 1, 2006, at 2:26 PM, Ian Eure wrote:

> David Carlton wrote:
> > On a related topic, how does one make the shell respond to up-arrow
> > and down-arrow the same way as in eshell?
> > In eshell up and down will show you the command history (just like  
> > the
> > shell in a Terminal window) but in shell up and down just move the
> > cursor up a line. You are forced to use C-p or C-n.
> You want something like:
>
> (define-key shell-mode-map "[(up)]" 'comint-previous-input)
> (define-key shell-mode-map "[(down)]" 'comint-next-input)
>
> I'm not sure if those key symbols are correct or not, so you might  
> need
> to tweak that.
> > Just wondering why that was chosen for the default.
> I think it's just because that's the way Emacs has done it for ages.

So why does eshell behave differently???
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