SQL*Plus improvement suggestion - Filtered History Recall

Hello,
In various command line interpreters I've used, typing the first few characters of a command one wishes to recall, causes the history buffer to only cycle thru the entries that start with the characters typed.
It would be really convenient to see this feature, that is standard in many command line interpreters, be implemented in SQL*Plus.
For example, typing "sele" would cycle through lines that start with "sele" (such as select) and no other lines.
Thank you.
John.

Hello Jgarry,
>
I hate, hate, hate that, ...
>
You are probably thinking that I was talking about those annoying hints that get in your way as you type. I despise those things too. I'm not talking about that.
This is what I'm talking about.... say that you have typed a large number of commands in SQL*Plus since you started the session... the history buffer looks like this (abbreviated):
select empno, .....
insert into ....
create table ....
select deptno ...
drop table .... currently in SQL*Plus, if you press the up/down arrow, it will cycle thru the history showing the next/previous command in the history buffer...
what I'm suggesting is...
type the letter i then press the up arrow and SQL*Plus would cycle thru the commands that start with i in the history buffer (instead of mindlessly starting at the most recent command).. in the example above.. it would immediately place the "insert into ... " at the command line ready to be reexecuted, it there were multiple statements that start with i in the history buffer, it would only cycle thru those and ignore the others.
currently SQL*Plus ignores anything typed at the command line when the up/down arrow is pressed, it simply overwrites it with whatever is the first command in the histroy buffer. This behavior makes it inconvenient to recall a command that was issued many commands ago. (not to mention that when you're used having the feature and then having SQL*Plus overwrite the partial command is highly annoying)
Hopefully this makes the feature I am asking for a little clearer. It's worth noting that most command line based utilities have this filter feature, SQL*Plus is a rare exception.
John.
Edited by: 440bx - 11gR2 on Aug 11, 2010 4:51 PM - reworded last line for clarity

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set feedback on
set define off
set pages 999
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set feedback on
set define off
set pages 999
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set feedback on
set define off
set pages 999
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set feedback on
set define off
set pages 999
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sys/change_on_install
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