On Fri, 28 Mar 1997, Pete Harlan wrote:
> In bash it's ^R for reverse, and ^S for forward search, just like in
> emacs. Perhaps if you select vi rules for bash it will use whatever
> horror vi uses for searching.
>
^S only freezes my xterm and i have to press ^Q to make it work again.
How come you can do ^S for forward searches without freezing your
xterm?
> Customization is great, but if you learn unmodified bash then you can
> use other folk's systems more easily. Unless they customized it.
>
The great advantage of bash is that it has resonably well thought out
default settings making it very easy to work for beginners. The Korn
shell ksh in turn is probably good for shell scripts but i hate to
work with iit under HP-UX where it is the default.
P. *8^)
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