From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 30 14:56:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lists.blarg.net (lists.blarg.net [206.124.128.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0728437B405 for ; Sun, 30 Dec 2001 14:56:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from thig.blarg.net (thig.blarg.net [206.124.128.18]) by lists.blarg.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6055BD4F; Sun, 30 Dec 2001 14:56:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([206.124.139.115]) by thig.blarg.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA12866; Sun, 30 Dec 2001 14:56:52 -0800 Received: (from jojo@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.11.6/8.11.3) id fBUMwKi33055; Sun, 30 Dec 2001 14:58:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from swear@blarg.net) To: "Darren" Cc: Subject: Re: awesome find References: <0f9301c19079$a2241200$6401a8c0@crotchett.com> From: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) Date: 30 Dec 2001 14:58:20 -0800 In-Reply-To: <0f9301c19079$a2241200$6401a8c0@crotchett.com> Message-ID: Lines: 9 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I think this thread doesn't belong on -questions (try -chat next time), but I see little harm in extending OT threads. The "pdksh" shell (and others, IIRC) has a nice ctrl-r gizmo which lets you do an incremental search on previous commands for a string whether it begins the command or not. Very helpful. You can also save a reach for the arrows by using ctrl-p and ctrl-n in pdksh and some other shells. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message