eshell: History
2.6 History
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The ‘history’ command shows all commands kept in the history ring as
numbered list. If the history ring contains ‘eshell-history-size’
commands, those numbers change after every command invocation, therefore
the ‘history’ command shall be applied before using the expansion
mechanism with history numbers.
The n-th entry of the history ring can be applied with the ‘!n’
command. If ‘n’ is negative, the entry is counted from the end of the
history ring.
‘!foo’ expands to the last command beginning with ‘foo’, and ‘!?foo’
to the last command containing ‘foo’. The n-th argument of the last
command beginning with ‘foo’ is accessible by ‘!foo:n’.
The history ring is loaded from a file at the start of every session,
and written back to the file at the end of every session. The file path
is specified in ‘eshell-history-file-name’. Unlike other shells, such
as Bash, Eshell can not be configured to keep a history ring of a
different size than that of the history file.
Since the default buffer navigation and searching key-bindings are
still present in the Eshell buffer, the commands for history navigation
and searching are bound to different keys:
‘M-r’
‘M-s’
History I-search.
‘M-p’
‘M-n’
Previous and next history line. If there is anything on the input
line when you run these commands, they will instead jump to the
previous or next line that begins with that string.
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