[clue-tech] How to NEXT in reverse-i-search

Will will.sterling at gmail.com
Wed Dec 15 08:38:01 MST 2010


Also you can use N to search in the other direction.  If you hit the keys to
quickly and went past the line you wanted.

On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 10:46 PM, David L. Anselmi <anselmi at anselmi.us>wrote:

> Maxwell Spangler wrote:
> > On Mon, 2010-12-13 at 14:37 -0700, David L. Willson wrote:
> >> So, you know that<CTRL>+r followed by a pattern finds the last (most
> recent) occurence of that string in your bash command history. What if you
> want the 2nd or 3rd most recent? How do you keep "searching up" your
> history?
> >
> > If you go old school and set it to 'vi' mode then you use / to search
> > forward and ? to search backward :-)
>
> And n to search again in the same direction.
>
> Dave
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