Please, please, keep UI feel homogeneous ! Why not HOME, END, CTRL + -> like any other text editor in the world ? Even squeak is following that convention in TextMorphs ! Also let SHIFT+CONTROL+-> select over words and typed characters overwrite selection. You don't have to imitate a poor man's shell!
You could have several ways to get at the first character. Actually, not only "could", but "should". Why not "home", "end" ? because there is no such keys on a mac.
Let history cycle when at beginning/end of list (with some form of advertising). And let restrict history crawling among lines matching the first letters if you typed some (like Matlab does).
As most shell do as well. Would be great to have, indeed. Cheers, Alexandre -- _,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;: Alexandre Bergel http://www.bergel.eu ^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;.