Linux Journal tip

[der.hans]

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
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