I used to recover in Octave the last command beginning with a certain string by typing it and then pressing the up arrow key (likewise for Matlab). This behavior is not reproduced in my current Octave's command prompt (the raw one, as executed from a terminal). Meaning, I type something, press up, and the very last command shows up, no matter if a previous one starting with that string is in the stack.
Any way of configuring Octave to reproduce such behavior? It's really useful.
UPDATE
1. Octave version 3.8.1
2. a way to implement it is to press Ctrl-r, and then type (not really the same effect, as it searches for a command containing -not starting with- that string.)
This estrange behavior has been solved here, it's just a question of starting Octave without the -f option, which prevents loading the initialization files, including ~/.inputrc, responsible for the history-search-backward behavior.