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From: =?utf-8?B?56mN5Li55bC8?= Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org>
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Subject: Re: why must bash zap last search string just because we hit ^C?
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> Press Ctrl-u
OK I see this also works for
$ ^Rabcdefg^U
$ some command the boss told me to do
$ ^R^R
and voila! I am back to searching "abcdefg" again.
OK, I'll remember ^U. Case closed. Thanks everybody.