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Re:The Missing Readline Primer by weggnog on Monday May 13, 2019 @09:18PM (#19905878)
If I press Ctrl-R, start typing, and get to something like the following, how do I keep what I've typed?

(failed reverse-i-search)`ssh some-host-i-want': ssh some-host-i-dont-want

I can't figure this out!

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Re:The Missing Readline Primer by gumby on Monday May 13, 2019 @10:07PM (#19906183)
Try control e
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Re:The Missing Readline Primer by weggnog on Monday May 13, 2019 @11:07PM (#19906460)
Nope. Ctrl-A and Ctrl-E both give the failed match (rather than what I typed). I'm not sure if there's a way to do what I want.
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Re:The Missing Readline Primer by therein on Wednesday May 15, 2019 @05:11AM (#19917622)
Ctrl-E works as far as my experience goes as well. What platform are you on? It probably comes down to your shell in this situation.
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