#2 Favor history list for completions

[Anonymous]

Maybe this is what the history search feature is for (I
can't figure out how to use the history search feature
- it may be broken), but I would like to see items in
my history appear before other possible completions.
For example, if I type s s Tab, The completation list
is: ssh-add, ssh-agent, ssh-copy-id, ssh-keygen,
ssh-keyscan and ssh. I would like to see items from my
history list such as "ssh annie" and "ssh dinetah"
appear at the top of the completion list, with the most
recent history match first.

[Mihai Bazon]

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Hmm.. the history search is not broken.. try it again.

However, this feature would be nice but what if sometimes is
not desired? Maybe it would be better to add another key
combination for completion from history.. but that would be
'!' history search.. I'll just think 'bout it for now.

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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The Debian documentation for gmrun does not mention the ! so
I'll file that as a bug with them. The Ctrl R and Ctrl S
mechanisms confused me.I took this to mean that I could
start a search with Ctrl S (a la Emacs), which is not
actually the case since the search does not wrap around.
After entering a search with Ctrl S, I could not (easily)
use Ctrl R to modify the search pattern in the opposite
direction. Anyway, I got confused.

Although I like the ! mechanism (since it is familiar from
CLI shells) I still think that many people repeat the same
commands frequently, so incorporating history items into the
Tab completion would be a very natural extension of the
current behavior. If the history list is ordered from the
most recently used command to the least recently used (which
it is), infrequently executed commands will not remain in
the history list for very long.

And if a history item is not the desired command, the user
need only tab to the desired command or continue typing to
disambiguate the correct choice. I guess history items
should appear in alphabetical order, not at the top of the
list as I had suggested. For example, typing s s h Tab would
yield a completion list like this:

ssh
ssh annie
ssh dinetah
ssh-add
ssh-agent
ssh-copy-id
ssh-keygen
ssh-keyscan

Of course, this would require that gmrun's completion logic
support spaces.
Let me know what you think.

Cheers,
m