No idea about ^R, but typing ESC /pattern in vi mode looks for earlier commands containing pattern ...
On Sun, Aug 27, 2017 at 05:02:36PM +0200, Jan Stary wrote:
> This is current/amd64. I am using ksh(1) as a shell.
> Using ^R opens a search in the command history.
> However, with 'export EDITOR=vi', pressing ^R
> just literarily types '^R' and does not open
> the history search. Is that expected?
>
> Jan
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Martin Bock :wq
