[Bug 1015744] Re: Bash history navigation keys should be enabled in the config

[Alexander Kabakow]

I tested this patch on windows. 
It works. I used MSys/MinGW environment that comes with windows version of git

By the way: forward-search-history is completely different feature from
history-search-forward. They are just different

So why it is good to have this feature enabled by default:
* Ubuntu - Linux for Human Beings, so it is must have friendly default configurations
* Proposed configuration is well tested: Gentoo Linux have this feature enabled for years
* Proposed configuration works even in Windows
* New users may found this keystrokes easy to learn
* Part of bash users are moving to zsh because they don't now how to enable this feature

Here is blog post http://www.electrictoolbox.com/pageup-history-auto-completion-bash-shell/
Author of post describes how history-search-backward/history-search-forward features works

So. For example you have history:
* ssh host-a
* cd ~/tmp/some
* mkdir test
* cd test
* vim host-a.conf
* ssh host-b
* ls
* cd ~/projects/kde-base
* make

You want to connect by ssh to host-a now
You can:
* Type ssh and press PageUp two times
* Type whole command by hands
* Press up arrow 8 times
* Use reverse search (C-r) supplying 'host-a' as params (It fails when it founds vim host-a.conf)

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Title:
  Bash history navigation keys should be enabled in the config

Status in “readline6” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Default bash shell setup should allow history navigation with page up and page down keys.
  Default Gentoo /etc/inputrc do this.

  There are bugs referencing this problem:  #103986, #89235
  By the way #103986 is almost five years old

  Dear Matthias Klose,
  Please apply this patch to the Precise Pangolin version package.

  As far I see patch is working for my bash instance

  Regards, Alex

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