Getting the previous commands from history should work like in a regular console

[Treehopper]

It think it would be big improvement, if the up and down buttons could be used to select from the history.
I would not get rid of the popup dialog though, but instead move it to a different key.

It may seems like nitpicking, but to me this is a significant usability issue because it really interrupts my flow when I first have to select an entry from the popup dialog before it gets copied to the input and I can edit it.
Maybe console users just need to get used to it, but if the Eclipse console framework does not restrict this, I think there is no reason why they should get used to it.

[rherrmann]

Thanks for sharing this idea.

The console framework does not technically restrict using Up and Down keys, at least not hat I am aware of.

Before implementing the command history we did a little survey among our colleagues. While there were votes for mimicking the shell behavior as close as possible, the majority voted for a popup dialog.

While I would agree on a configuration setting to choose between the two key bindings, I currently have no time to implement this. But you are welcome to drive this enhancement.