#up

I am a long-time user of short-lived Emacs sessions who is now trying to take advantage of having a browser that runs for days or weeks at a time---I've configured my desktop shell to auto-start emacs --daemon when I log in, and I rarely restart it (though it's probably still do it more often than a really hard-core Emacs user would).

As a consequence, my minibuffer history starts to fill up with good stuff that I want to re-use in order to increase my efficiency.

I have little doubt that at some point in the past I've typed C-r (isearch-backward) to do an i-search-backward on the minibuffer, only to be rebuffed (see what I did there!). And then I probably started hitting the UP (previous-history-line) key to get back to where I wanted to be, assuming I didn't just give up entirely.

To know that M-r (previous-matching-history-element) and M-s (next-matching-history-element) start forward and backward searches through the minibuffer is pretty nice. And if they're not isearch, at least they're regexes.

I've long known about using the UP (previous-history-element) and DOWN (next-history-element) keys to move through the minibuffer history. It's always been a little jarring that C-p (previous-line) and C-n (next-line), which I'm very habituated to use (perhaps even more than the actual arrow keys, since I touch type, and can use them without moving my hands) don't work in the minibuffer---Emacs just beeps unhappily at me.

I was pleased to find out that, in addition to the dedicated arrow keys, M-p (previous-history-element) and M-n (next-history-element) scroll through the minibuffer history. The should be much more easily accessible to me---and I do scroll through the minibuffer a lot.