From: Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@gmail.com>
To: vogt@linux.vnet.ibm.com, Zsh Users <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: Interactive search on the command line?
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2015 09:20:40 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHYJk3RcquNSfXnnYO-ORvPzm8OP-8RWYA+nCJfrrvRaaqwBjg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151126080400.GA20074@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 9:04 AM, Dominik Vogt <vogt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> Is there a way to do an interactive search (or at least a
> non-interactive string search) in the command line editor? I
> often have extremely long gcc command lines where I want to delete
> an option or do some editing in the middle of the command line,
> and moving the cursor to the interesting spot is quite tedious.
You can use ctrl-r for this. (eg, history-incremental-*-search-*).
Another useful trick on long command lines is to type alt-300 or some
suitably large number before pressing left/right.
--
Mikael Magnusson
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-11-26 8:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-11-26 8:04 Dominik Vogt
2015-11-26 8:20 ` Mikael Magnusson [this message]
2015-11-27 7:03 ` lilydjwg
2015-11-27 7:34 ` Daniel Shahaf
2015-11-29 21:46 ` Scott Frazer
2015-11-30 3:19 ` Daniel Shahaf
2015-12-02 13:15 ` Scott Frazer
2015-12-03 23:39 ` Daniel Shahaf
2015-12-04 0:40 ` Ray Andrews
2015-12-04 0:50 ` Ray Andrews
2015-12-04 0:59 ` Bart Schaefer
2015-12-04 20:56 ` Scott Frazer
2015-12-05 10:00 ` Daniel Shahaf
2015-12-05 16:38 ` Mikael Magnusson
2015-12-05 21:07 ` Bart Schaefer
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