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| From: | Chris F.A. Johnson |
| Subject: | Re: why must bash zap last search string just because we hit ^C? |
| Date: | Sat, 17 Oct 2015 22:23:20 -0400 (EDT) |
| User-agent: | Alpine 2.10 (DEB 1266 2009-07-14) |
On Sun, 18 Oct 2015, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote:
DW> On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 1:50 PM, Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@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 press UP (as many times as necessary) and RET. -- Chris F.A. Johnson, <http://cfajohnson.com>
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