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Re:Show HN: McFly, a smart Bash history search CLI in Rust w... by jaster on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @06:06AM (#18598300)
Yep you're right, I got my shortcuts between bash and zsh mixed-up. I edited my post, thanks for the correction.

(Not sure why bash did not go the obvious route here, I guess they already had something on ctrl+S when they implemented forward search...)

EDIT: actually, you can activate ctrl+S for search-foward on bash by using `stty -ixon`. See more info about why here https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/141422/searching-hi...

Re:Show HN: McFly, a smart Bash history search CLI in Rust w... by fnord123 on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @07:12AM (#18598670)
ctrl-s is usually for pausing the terminal (where ctrl-q resumes it).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_flow_control