Alexander Farber wrote:
Hello,

Hi there.

I'm trying to switch to ksh as my login shell.

Now that should not be that hard, should it? :)

However I just can't find (yes, I've read "man ksh")
a way for searching for a partially typed command.

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?

I press ^C ^R '^' and write the same string again, i.e.
^C -> abort
^R -> search-history
      ^  -> search from beginning of previous commands

... and start typing the command from the beginning again...

Put another way - I missed the functionality you describe for some time, too, until I got used to it not being there. It was not a long time either, AFAICR.

It annoys me, however, that I cannot search for a substring starting with "^". Anyone please correct me if I'm wrong.

Anyway, if you're interested, please test the diffs supplied by (through) Otto and maybe we'll see some ksh improvments!

/Alexander

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