At Wed, 9 Feb 2005 09:42:31 +1100, Ben Leslie wrote: > 1/ Ctrl-R history searching > > When using the shell you pretty quickly work out that pressing up will search > backwards through you history, however it tooks me ages to find out that you > could search backs through the history by typing Ctrl-R and a search string.
One of my favourite is M-. (thats alt or maybe windows key and full-stop) That will cycle through the last word on the last commands. (Of course zsh has all sorts of exciting keys, but I won't turn this into a zsh-specific mail..) -- - Gus -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
