Retrieve previous command in less command [solved]

[vimes666]

From the less manual:

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UPARROW [ ESC-k ]
              Retrieve  the  previous  command line.  If you first enter some text and then press
              UPARROW, it will retrieve the previous command which begins with that text.

This does not work for me. up and down arrows as well as ESC-k or j only scroll the text up and down

Funny thing is, few weeks ago, all of a sudden it worked at a moment that I didn't want it to. Alas, I have no idea how I inadvertently managed to that. I tried several old installs of mint on the standard terminal emulation and in a native terminal. All have the same behaviour.

I am now at a point that I really need this retrieve function, so if anyone has a hint, I'd be much much obliged.

[1000]

This is probably the wrong section to get proper help.
However, if your problem is caused by changing settings, so everything should work as usual in the new user account.
Try check.

Edited
And I hope you know that " UPARROW [ ESC-k ] " will work only
for example when you enter the text to search " / "

For example in search mode also will work ESC-k
ESC-h will move cursor to the left and ESC-l will move the cursor to the right.

When you press Esc-h and if unwanted signs appear, then I guess it may be related to the sensitivity setting for pressed key,
I mean that there is a waiting time for the next character to be pressed. After this time you will see ESCESCESCESC ....
but these are just my guesses.

[motoryzen]

If all else fails ( and I recommend you continue being patient to allow some more people here to recommend some reasonable ideas to try imo), you could try copying your gnome-terminal ( if you're using cinnamon desktop ) from your Linux Mint Cinnamon installation boot drive ( boot into that, open two windows..both as root

<<<*** warning..though *** This will obviously revert all things you customized about gnome-terminal back to stock/defaults >>>

1 window for your root directory of the boot drive

2nd window for your Mint cinnamon installed drive's root directory

navigate to both windows to the same place. /bin

This worked for me ( replacing my Mint's installed gnome-terminal with a what i call " stock " copy directly from the Mint's boot drive's /bin directory.) when my gnome-terminal wouldn't launch one day. and I didn't want to do a clean LM installation.

[vimes666]

This is probably the wrong section to get proper help.

In hindsight, yes you are right. I should have posted it in the silly idiots section
Because:

And I hope you know that " UPARROW [ ESC-k ] " will work only
for example when you enter the text to search " / "

Indeed I did not realise that you have to type a / or a & first before the uparrow.
Thank you very much, this was driving me crazy.