On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 03:02:06PM -0400, Paul Smith wrote: > Hm. After reviewing your bug report I'll ask the dumb question: are you > sure you actually had some history to forward-isearch on? Your bug > report sounds to me like exactly what would happen if there were no > entries forward of your current one in the history that matched what you > were typing. > > Remember that in the shell your "current" entry is always at the _end_ > of the list, so ^S only makes sense when you have already gone backwards > (either with ^P or even all the way to the beginning with M-<). > > Under normal circumstances in bash you typically use ^R > (reverse-isearch) since you're usually at the end of the history. >
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