On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 1:50 PM, Chet Ramey <chet.ra...@case.edu> wrote:
> On 10/16/15 3:19 AM, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote: > > Type ^Racb^C^R^R > > (Search backwards for abc, then hit ^C, then try searching backwards > > some more using the last search string.) > > > > My problem is why must bash zap the memory of abc just because we hit ^C? > > ^C rudely aborts the entire operation. Why assume you want to save any > of the context? > > -- > ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer > ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates > Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU c...@case.edu > http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/ > > ^G also interrupts reverse-i-search and also doesn't retain the interrupted search string in the same way as ^C (^R^R recalls the previous search that was terminated by enter or cursor move, etc. - (e.g. isearch-terminators) - instead of the interrupted one). -- Visit serverfault.com to get your system administration questions answered.
