Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2016 20:02:30 +0200 From: Sascha Folie <sascha.folie@safo.at> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: csh history search Message-ID: <20161024200230.5b6edab3b54c065ea171eff2@safo.at> In-Reply-To: <99ed60e6-2132-943e-262b-1a237a6f578f@citrin.ru> References: <580E2B4F.4000003@gmail.com> <99ed60e6-2132-943e-262b-1a237a6f578f@citrin.ru>
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On Mon, 24 Oct 2016 11:52:00 -0400 Anton Yuzhaninov <citrin+bsd@citrin.ru> wrote: > On 10/24/16 11:39, Ernie Luzar wrote: > > Lets say that a while back I issued this command > > ping -c 4 hometown.jones.domain.com > > > > Now I would like to retrieve that domain name from the history list. > > > > On the command line I enter !?jon > > The complete ping command is retrieved and automatically executed. > > > > I don't want the found command automatically executed, I just want the > > found command inserted to the command line being visible so I can > > manually modify it before choosing to execute it. > > If you have > > bindkey -k up history-search-backward > bindkey -k down history-search-forward > > in ~/.cshrc (there by default in FreeBSD) > > your can type > *jon* > and then using up/down arrows list all history entries matched by *jon* > and edit lime before executing. > > See > man tcsh > /history-search-backward > for more info. You can also add bindkey "^R" i-search-back to ~/.cshrc to enable CTRL+r search (like bash).
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