der.hans wrote:
> Am 14. Sep, 2006 schwätzte Shawn Badger so:
>
>> I don't know how many of you receive this weekly newsletter from Linux
>> Journal. They have a section called The Brain Trust which had a tip that
>> I never heard of for searching the history in a Bash shell. Here is the
>> excerpt from the newsletter:
>>
>> THE BRAIN TRUST: READERS SHARE THEIR EXPERTISE
>>
>> This week we have a contribution from Jim C.:
>>
>> "In the technical tips section of your newsletter on 9/5/06, you
>> referred to
>> Bret's alias for searching bash history. Why create an alias when
>> bash
>> gives the user the 'reverse-i-search' and 'forward-i-search'
>> features?
>
> These are emacs compatability features. Many other emacs commands work.
>
> Well, until you fix bash by switching to vi compatability ;-).
>
> I learned how to use vi on the command line, not in the editor.
>
> ksh can use either mode as well. Anybody know if that's also true of zsh?
>
> ciao,
>
> der.hans
>
I seem to remember from my HP-UX days that zsh had a history search facility
similar to vi, with a /.
--
-Eric 'shubes'
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