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Re:Shell Has a Forth-Like Quality by marklgr on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @05:07AM (#13480165)
Will take a look, but 'history-search-backward' fills most of my needs in that regard.
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Re:Shell Has a Forth-Like Quality by djsumdog on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @02:23PM (#13484990)
You really should. Once I got use to the fish auto-complete history, the Bash reverse search felt terribly primitive. There is no Ctrl+R. Just type part of an old command and hit the up arrow to scroll.
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