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pianoben on Oct 25, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Level Up Your Shell Game

Since I've switched to zshell, I've found that I haven't used Ctrl-r much at all. The intelligent history feature does it for me. For example:

If earlier I had a long command like `mvn clean test && mvn deploy -P release`, I can just type `mvn v` and press up on the arrows. zsh will present only history entries that start with what I've typed. Insanely useful!

hharrison on Oct 25, 2013 [–]

The same thing can be done in bash:

## arrow up

"\e[A":history-search-backward

## arrow down

"\e[B":history-search-forward

(in .inputrc)

nitrogen on Oct 25, 2013 | [–]

I prefer mapping those to page up and page down.

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