That sounds great Eric, those two modifications combined will make finding and repeating old commands much easier!

Oliver.
On Oct 1, 2015, at 3:31 PM, Eric Pettersen <pett@cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:

I also just tweaked the up/down history navigation so that if the navigation would produce a result identical to whatever is currently in the command line, it “keeps going” until it yields a results that isn’t identical.  This applies to both normal up/down and shifted up/down.  So, if you have several consecutive identical entries in your command history, this effectively treats them as one entry and therefore may reduce the need for a preference to not record consecutive identical entries in the command history…

—Eric

Eric Pettersen
UCSF Computer Graphics Lab

On Oct 1, 2015, at 6:35 AM, Oliver Clarke <olibclarke@gmail.com> wrote:

Just tried out the new daily build and the command line history autofiltering works great, thanks Eric! This makes it much easier to cycle through previous selection commands, or to remember syntax for previous vop commands.

Cheers,
Oliver.

On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 2:46 PM, Oliver Clarke <olibclarke@gmail.com> wrote:
That sounds great, thanks Eric! I look forward to trying it out, think it'll be a real timesaver!

Cheers,
Oli.

On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 2:19 PM, Eric Pettersen <pett@cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
Hi Oliver,
        This seems like a useful suggestion.  I have implemented it in a slightly different form.  If you use the shift key while navigating the command history (i.e. shift up/down arrow or control-N/P), then it will jump to the next history entry that matches the current command name.  Available in the next daily build.

—Eric

> On Sep 23, 2015, at 2:42 PM, Oliver Clarke <olibclarke@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Just a suggestion (I guess for chimera 2) - would it be possible to autofilter the command history based on the typed substring?
>
> That is if I have typed “sel” and hit the up arrow, to only cycle through those commands in the history that start with “sel”.
>
> This would be particularly handy for scrolling quickly through recent “sel” and “color” commands - a similar mechanism is implemented in several shells and it works well.
>
> Cheers,
> Oliver.
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