making this meme taught me about ctrl + r and now i use it all the time. just gonna pretend like i knew about it all along
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thanks to everyone giving me new shortcuts to learn, im not going to remember any of them
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One of the reasons twitter.com/DanielMicay/st is the way. I usually want to search for a prefix rather than a string anywhere in the command.
Can't use Ctrl-R properly in most terminals without changing their configuration because the Ctrl-S binding to go backwards is already used.
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Replying to @chompie1337 and @realytcracker
~/.inputrc
"\e[A":history-search-backward
"\e[B":history-search-forward
Does a history search based on prefix if you typed something. Similar for Zsh.
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Pretty sure the people who came up with the standard Ctrl-S binding in terminals were trolls. I'm well aware what it does but I still often think my terminal locked up because I accidentally pressed Ctrl-S. Need to remember to try Ctrl-Q to unfreeze it. Sometimes useful though.