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From: "Chris F.A. Johnson" <chris@cfajohnson.com>
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Subject: Re: why must bash zap last search string just because we hit ^C?
Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2015 22:23:20 -0400 (EDT)
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On Sun, 18 Oct 2015, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote:

> DW> On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 1:50 PM, Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> wrote:
>
> DW>     ^C rudely aborts the entire operation.  Why assume you want to save any
> DW>     of the context?
>
> Because I got a phone call: the boss asked me to execute a shell
> command. I used ^C to get myself back to a prompt so I could type in the
> command. Now I want to resume searching and must type my
> ^Rlong_search_string all over again.
> OK I suppose I can train myself to do ^A # RET or ESC ESC # instead.

Or just press UP (as many times as necessary) and RET.


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