Re: [Help-bash] bash key mapping in reverse-i-search mode

[Sinbad]

On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 8:09 PM, Chet Ramey <address@hidden> wrote:

On 8/14/12 11:46 PM, Sinbad wrote:
> i mapped a key to enter the reverse-i-search in bash.
> is there a way to map keys so that i can move backward
> with the search list. currently i use ctrl-r to scan through
> the matched entries.

The code is written so that any key sequence mapped to reverse-search-history
can be used to move backwards through the history list.  Is that not
happening?

Chet
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hi chet,

i mapped ;b for reverse-i-search, i don't see the same mapping work after i

enter reverse-i-search mode, but ctrl-r still works though. this is the version

i am running.

GNU bash, version 3.2.25(1)-release-(x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu)