[Konsole-devel] [Bug 140156] Matlab like history completion

[Robert Knight]

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------- Additional Comments From robertknight gmail com  2007-01-16 16:50 -------
Hello Yuval,

I think you can get what you are after by pressing Ctrl+R in the terminal and then typing in the first few characters of your command.  
Press Ctrl+R and you will see a line like this:

(reverse i-search: '') 

If you have typed in "make install" previously, type in "mak" and it should prompt you with "make install".  Press enter to execute the command.

More information can be found here: http://www.faqs.org/docs/bashman/bashref_95.html

This assumes that you are using a Bash shell ( you can find out by running "echo $SHELL" in the terminal, it will print "/bin/bash" if you are )

Other than that,  it is important to understand the difference between Konsole and the program running in the shell.  Konsole is a "terminal emulator", in other words, a window in which command-line programs can run, accept user input and print output.  It isn't responsible for any of the text you see inside the window or doing anything useful with the input.  That is done by the shell process, typically called bash.  See the web page linked above for bash documentation.