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Re: Problem with vi mode in bash 5.0 beta

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On 12/12/18 5:32 PM, Stan Marsh wrote:
> (This is all after doing "set -o vi")
> 
> In previous versions of bash, I could do the following keys: <Esc> / ^ foo <Enter>
> and it would find the most recent command that starts with foo.  This is all as
> expected.
> 
> However, in bash 5.0 beta (self-compiled), this doesn't work. It always leaves the
> cursor line empty (as if there was no matching history line).  If I leave out the ^,
> then it works as expected (but, of course, matches the string anywhere, not just at
> the beginning of the line).

These are fixed in bash-5.0-beta2.

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Re: Problem with vi mode in bash 5.0 beta Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> - 2018-12-13 08:54 -0500

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