On Sun, 2005-12-04 at 01:51 -0800, Brandin Creech wrote: > The C-r key sequence does something else: it goes back to the last > encountered word that you typed. For instance, they key sequence > (C-r),c,p,(space),-,a would list the last command that had 'cp -a' in > it (and > pressing return would run it). But if I go back too far in this list, > I'm > supposed to be able to press C-s to go forward in the list to find the > next-latest 'cp -a' command, but as I said, CTRL+S is already being > used.
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