On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 12:48:04PM +0100, Alexander Farber wrote:
[...]
> In tcsh I was typing "ll /var/w" and then ESC-p(revious)
> and ESC-n(ext) to search for the matching commands.
[...]
> So what do you do in ksh, when you start to
> type a command and then realize, that it must
> be somewhere there in the history already?
Well, using vi-mode, i prefer to ESC-# the current command line and
then use ESC-/ to search. If there's nothing appropriate in the
history, i abort the search and use ESC-k ESC-# to get the partial
command line back.
Ciao,
Kili
