more sophisticated history filtering

[olibclarke@…]

I have one suggestion for a slight tweak… at the moment, scrolling up through the history (with Shift+Up) seems to update the string to filter on as I scroll. There is a (very) minor issue with this approach. It means the process is not reversible and the results depend on the contents and ordering of the history.

For example, lets say I’m looking for a command I typed a while back, i know it started with “bond” but can’t remember the exact name of the command. If I type “bond” and then hit Shift+Up, I will only find the first matching command - if I had both bondrepr and bondzone in my command history, for example, I will only see the first one. I think it would be more intuitive if history filtering paid attention to only the initially typed string, if that is possible - so if I type “bond”, I will scroll up through bondrepr, bond zone, bonddisplay etc, and will obtain the same results heading back “down” through the command history.

[Eric Pettersen]

Should be implemented in conjunction with Chimera 1 #14234

[Eric Pettersen]

Implemented.