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Re:Control-R, my favorite Unix shell command by Bootvis on Sunday May 18, 2014 @12:42PM (#7763485)
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    python
in your shell?
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Re:Control-R, my favorite Unix shell command by maxerickson on Sunday May 18, 2014 @12:53PM (#7763529)
Note that a given python may be compiled without readline or with a readline replacement.
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Re:Control-R, my favorite Unix shell command by encoderer on Sunday May 18, 2014 @09:58PM (#7765280)
Yeah, the one on OSX isn't compiled w/ readline. But I tried it on a ubuntu host and it works.
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