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2 Features requiring no modifications
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5 These features are provided "for free" to a cmd_-based application
6 simply by replacing ``import cmd`` with ``import cmd2 as cmd``.
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8 Searchable command history
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11 All cmd_-based applications have access to previous commands with
12 the up- and down- cursor keys.
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14 All cmd_-based applications on systems with the ``readline`` module
15 also provide `bash-like history list editing`_.
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17 .. _`bash-like history list editing`: http://www.talug.org/events/20030709/cmdline_history.html
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19 ``cmd2`` makes a third type of history access available, consisting of these commands:
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21 .. automethod:: cmd2.Cmd.do_history
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