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From: Andrew DeFaria <Andrew@DeFaria.com>
Subject:  Re: First Pass at mintty documentation; etc.
Date:  Wed, 14 Jan 2009 20:18:31 -0700
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Andy Koppe wrote:
> Lee D. Rothstein wrote:
>
>>  > "\e[1;5A": history-search-backward
>>  > "\e[1;5B": history-search-forward
>>
>> Perhaps I don't understand this 'bash' feature, but it doesn't seem 
>> to work for me.
> Start typing a command, press Ctrl-Up, and it finds the previous line 
> in the history that started like that.
Why not simply type Ctrl-R then the first few letters of a command (or 
some letters in the middle of a command). Works great! Requires no 
support from any terminal emulator...
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Andrew DeFaria <http://defaria.com>
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