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