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Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 20:07:47 -0700
From: Danek Duvall <duvall@lorien.emufarm.org>
To: "E. Jay Berkenbilt" <ejb@ql.org>
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Subject: Re: more tcsh-like history-search capability
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On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 08:31:23PM -0400, E. Jay Berkenbilt wrote:

> By default, zsh's history-search functions look through history for
> lines whose first word starts with the first word on the command line.
> I prefer to search for commands that start with the string before the
> cursor.

So do I.  And zsh even has these built-in:

    history-beginning-search-backward
    history-beginning-search-forward

:)

Danek