Tip to improve bash history

[Ow Mun Heng]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jaap A. Haitsma [mailto:jaap at haitsma.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 4:51 AM
> To: fedora-list at redhat.com
> Subject: Tip to improve bash history
> 
> To get this behaviour always add the following two lines to your
> /etc/inputrc
> 
> "\M-[A":history-search-backward
> "\M-[B":history-search-forward


Can anyone pls explain... what does "\M-[A" translate to in terms of
keyboard keys?? What's a META key?

I saw a lot of \e or "\e[3~" but have no idea how to invoke them.

pls elaborate or tell me where to look for more into.