====== history ======

===== Default Keybindings =====

  * ''C-a {''
  * ''C-a }''

===== Syntax =====

  * ''**history**''

===== Description =====

Usually users work with a shell that allows easy access to previous
commands.  For example, csh has the command "''!!''" to repeat the last
command executed.  ''screen'' allows you to have a primitive way of
recalling "the command that started ...": You just type the first letter
of that command, then hit ''C-a {'' and ''screen'' tries to find a
previous line that matches with the "prompt character" to the left of the
cursor.  This line is pasted into this window's input queue.  Thus you
have a crude command history (made up by the visible window and its
scrollback buffer).

===== Examples =====

None yet.

===== See Also =====

  * [[:Misc]]