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.

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