Comments on: Terminal Sweetness with reverse-i-search

By: Randy Merrill

Randy Merrill — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 00:52:37 +0000

Yup, they both use your ~/.bash_history, one just uses a search instead of one at a time.

By: jk

jk — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 20:37:30 +0000

up/down arrows cycle back through previous commands in bash.
I believe both are just reading through ~/.bash_history

By: Cliff

Cliff — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:45:52 +0000

Cool!! I typed this in by accident in cygwin/bash (I thought I was in Eclipse and was about to open a file with ctrl-shit-r) and found your post as explanation.

Much appreciated!

By: Randy Merrill

Randy Merrill — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 23:24:01 +0000

Hey karthi,

I couldn’t find anything about going back up individually. But there is a question on stack overflow that suggests that following:

M-> … moves to end of history
M-< … moves to start of history
Your left alt key is most likely your Meta key.

By: karthi

karthi — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 11:22:44 +0000

Do you know how to come back in your search.. like repeat Ctr-r…reverse