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"By way of comparison, on my home PC I used a third-party command shell called 4DOS [...] It had a wonderful command line history mechanism: type part of a command, then press up-arrow."

Want in bash? Add to ~/.inputrc:

# up and down arrows do incremental history search

"\e[A": history-search-backward

"\e[B": history-search-forward



By default, ^R starts an incremental history search.


Why do old Unix programs always have bad defaults?


Because the defaults come from 70's, and lots of nice stuff has added since, but nobody dared to touch the defaults.


This is the first thing I change in any linux system I'm working with. I've become completely dependent on prefixed history.

Never liked the Ctrl+R thing.




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