From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 25151 invoked from network); 18 Apr 2005 18:55:47 -0000 Received: from news.dotsrc.org (HELO a.mx.sunsite.dk) (130.225.247.88) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 18 Apr 2005 18:55:47 -0000 Received: (qmail 28776 invoked from network); 18 Apr 2005 18:55:41 -0000 Received: from sunsite.dk (130.225.247.90) by a.mx.sunsite.dk with SMTP; 18 Apr 2005 18:55:41 -0000 Received: (qmail 29442 invoked by alias); 18 Apr 2005 18:55:33 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-users-help@sunsite.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 8694 Received: (qmail 29425 invoked from network); 18 Apr 2005 18:55:33 -0000 Received: from news.dotsrc.org (HELO a.mx.sunsite.dk) (130.225.247.88) by sunsite.dk with SMTP; 18 Apr 2005 18:55:33 -0000 Received: (qmail 27567 invoked from network); 18 Apr 2005 18:55:32 -0000 Received: from mxfep02.bredband.com (195.54.107.73) by a.mx.sunsite.dk with SMTP; 18 Apr 2005 18:55:28 -0000 Received: from puritan.pcp.ath.cx ([213.112.43.228] [213.112.43.228]) by mxfep02.bredband.com with ESMTP id <20050418185527.GPSJ3591.mxfep02.bredband.com@puritan.pcp.ath.cx> for ; Mon, 18 Apr 2005 20:55:27 +0200 Received: by puritan.pcp.ath.cx (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 73D78ADFEA; Mon, 18 Apr 2005 20:55:30 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 20:55:30 +0200 From: Nikolai Weibull To: zsh-users@sunsite.dk Subject: Re: Reverse history searching in zsh Message-ID: <20050418185530.GC5765@puritan.pcp.ath.cx> Mail-Followup-To: zsh-users@sunsite.dk References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.2 on a.mx.sunsite.dk X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.4 required=6.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.0.2 X-Spam-Hits: -2.4 Tejasvi Aswathanarayana, April 18: > I have been hearing about ZSH for quite sometime now. I have been > hesitant to move coz I am not sure if ZSH has this one "cool" feature > of bash, the reverse-search, which searches the history in reverse > order and gets you the matches.... This is one heck of a feature that > I wouldnt want to miss in my shell. > > Does anybody know if zsh has this feature... looked on the web but > couldnt find this feature in zsh! Yes, it does. It has loads of other features that are even more useful. Install the shell and read the documentation and try out the things that strike you as interesting. In the end, you may find that you will be able to leave Bash behind and make the transition to Zsh, nikolai -- Nikolai Weibull: now available free of charge at http://bitwi.se/! Born in Chicago, IL USA; currently residing in Gothenburg, Sweden. main(){printf(&linux["\021%six\012\0"],(linux)["have"]+"fun"-97);}