a small functionality in the terminal improving usability

Hi there,

I was wondering whether it is possible to add a feature to the gnome terminal.

It's something very common in MATLAB for example and might really improve usability(to my mind).

When you start typing a command and stop after maybe three characters pressing up will search the command line history and call back commands you used before starting with the same string. I try doing that in terminal all the time and notice that it might help others as well. I know that pressing up without typing anything would achieve that as well, but it requires a lot of pressing up to get to the wanted command sometimes.

I am by no means a developer and if this is the incorrect place for this question I apologise, but you might want to consider implementing that.

If this feature is already implemented then I am sorry. I haven't found how to do it.

Thank you