repeating previous command

[Thomas Lumley]

On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 bb2 at duke.edu wrote:

> Hello All,
>
> I was wondering if there is  way of cycling through a list of
> previously repeated commands in order to avoid having to retype them.
> If I open R outside of Xemacs, then the up or down arrows accomplish
> this.  Once I'm in the Xemacs environment with ESS (the iESS R
> window), the same up or down arrow simply moves my cursor within the
> R buffer.  How can I can I scroll through previous commands inside of
> the iESS window?
>

Meta-P (previous), Meta-N (next)

Note that these scroll through an Emacs history buffer not the R history,
so they aren't quite the same as in a terminal.  Most obviously, they
ignore commands submitted by ess-eval-*


	-thomas

Thomas Lumley			Assoc. Professor, Biostatistics
tlumley at u.washington.edu	University of Washington, Seattle