On 10/31/20 11:00 AM, Detlef Vollmann wrote:
> Hello,
>
> since Bash-5.1-rc1 <CTRL-R> doesn't work for me as previously.
> I have the following entries in my history:
> man a
> man b
>
> Now I type '<CTRL-R> m a n' and get:
> (reverse-i-search)`man': man b
>
> Now I type '<CTRL-R>' again.
> What I would expect (and what I got with 5.0) is:
> (reverse-i-search)`man': man a
>
> Instead I get
> (reverse-i-search)`': man b
>
> Note the empty search string.
Thanks for the report. It's not easy to reproduce, and, as you later note,
requires the `C' or `POSIX' locales and things to be done in a certain
order, but I believe I was able to track it down. It will be fixed in
bash-5.1-rc2.
Chet
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