DW> On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 1:50 PM, Chet Ramey <chet.ra...@case.edu> wrote:
DW> ^C rudely aborts the entire operation. Why assume you want to save any DW> of the context? Because I got a phone call: the boss asked me to execute a shell command. I used ^C to get myself back to a prompt so I could type in the command. Now I want to resume searching and must type my ^Rlong_search_string all over again. OK I suppose I can train myself to do ^A # RET or ESC ESC # instead.