Readline/command history w/ interactive prompt

[Michael Hudson]

Andy Gimblett <gimbo at ftech.net> writes:

> On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 05:51:17PM +0000, Mark Jackson wrote:
> 
> > Try hitting control-r and typing a short string that last appeared
> > in the line desired ("my" or even "m" would work in this case).
> 
> _Nice_!  Thanks for that.  One question though: where's this feature
> documented?  :-)

"man bash", "man readline".  Not too hard...

Cheers,
M.

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