reverse incremental search

glinux · 03-04-2009, 09:04 PM

Hi,

to begin searching history via reverse incremental search i hit control-r.

sometimes, i wish to discard the search and revert to the commandline as it was before beginning the search.

are there key combinations to do this?

glinux

anomie · 03-04-2009, 10:08 PM

One way to get yourself back to the command line (and discontinue your reverse incremental search) is simply: Ctrl + c.

glinux · 03-05-2009, 07:46 AM

thanks.

another key combo to achieve same result is:

alt->

or for purists

meta->

this combo navigates to the last entry of the history stack and exits incremental search mode.

other key combinations for the history stack may be applicable for incremental search. i haven't check these.

glinux