Smart up and down on the command line
I bet everyone already knows this, but I just learned it and love it:
# put this in ~/.inputrc # By default up/down are bound to previous-history # and next-history respectively. The following does the # same but gives the extra functionality where if you # type any text (or more accurately, if there is any text # between the start of the line and the cursor), the subset # of the history starting with that text is searched # Note to get rid of a line just Ctrl-C "\e[B": history-search-forward "\e[A": history-search-backward # Include system wide settings which are ignored # by default if one has their own .inputrc $include /etc/inputrc
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