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Re:A redditor explains how to make readline and bash more us... by shabble on Sunday September 11, 2011 @07:33PM (#2985196)
It seems to have an annoying habit of preserving the index of the last partial match, even if you cancel it. So when you realise you were searching for the wrong substring, cancel and start over, it won't find it because you've now gone past it in the history list.

I'm still not sure of a decent solution to it (apart from using C-s to search history forward instead)

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Re:A redditor explains how to make readline and bash more us... by pacemkr on Sunday September 11, 2011 @08:23PM (#2985310)
It is annoying. Generally happens to me when I "miss" the thing I was searching for and go too far. This is what I do:

    Ctrl + a, Ctrl + k (move to beginning, delete to end), Enter
Going to a new line, resets that index.

I'm sure there is a better way, but its muscle memory for me.

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Re:A redditor explains how to make readline and bash more us... by daemianmack on Monday September 12, 2011 @08:39AM (#2986980)
ctrl+c should cancel the search, saving you the line-editing workaround.
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Re:A redditor explains how to make readline and bash more us... by daemianmack on Sunday September 11, 2011 @07:37PM (#2985202)
I hit the Enter key.
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