PgUp in bash used to search backwards through the history based upon the command you've started entering. So its history based auto-complete basically. It (/etc/inputrc) was replaced with some useless functionality along with its search forward counterpart PgDown. Used to be (Good): "\e[5~": history-search-backward "\e[6~": history-search-forward Is now (Bad, and pretty much completely useless): "\e[5~": beginning-of-history "\e[6~": end-of-history This wasn't there before baselayout-1.8.6.8-r1 and must have appeared in one of the ebuilds between then and baselayout-1.8.6.10-r1. Probably 1.8.6.10-r1 itself as that and 1.8.6.8-r1 are the only ones in portage other than an older one before the affected area. Puggy
Seeing as we should probably stay in line with what bash are doing and not fiddle about with that I'm closing this WONTFIX. You can always configure it easily yourself by switching back to the old lines in /etc/inputrc. Puggy
ok. Its fixed but I mean't to choose WONTFIX. Puggy
Woohoo! Better to stay in line with bash as it's "pretty much completely useless". Sorry, this bugs me. Used to be nice. Now it suks. I wonder who would complain if it wasn't in line with bash. This is probably the most useful thing I've seen in a console. This and screen. Granted I've changed it on my machine, but none of my friends know about it and it suks when I go to their machines and have to educate them. They all say, "Why isn't that the default?" They wouldn't even know about it otherwise. Is there some kind of voting system for bugs/suggestions like this? My 2 cents. Clint Silvester
this was actually Bug 26036
