On Oct 17, 2015 9:06 PM, "積丹尼 Dan Jacobson" <jida...@jidanni.org> wrote: > > 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.
Or just open a new terminal rather than interrupting an in-progress search.
