Timeline for How to have type-ahead apply to bash history search (Ctrl-R)?
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| Aug 31, 2015 at 17:34 | comment | added | Mark Plotnick | Workaround: while the other command is running and the terminal is in cooked mode, type Control-V Control-R. The Control-V is used by the operating system to quote the following character; the effect is to enter the Control-R literally into the input stream. | |
| Aug 31, 2015 at 11:37 | comment | added | meuh | You are right. I found stty rprnt undef in my .bashrc. According to my rcs log I added it in 16 years ago, and, sadly, I'd forgotten all about it... | |
| Aug 31, 2015 at 11:09 | history | edited | Stéphane Gourichon | Added tags. | |
| Aug 31, 2015 at 11:05 | comment | added | Stéphane Gourichon | Observed on Debian and Ubuntu systems for ages. Based on Celada's answer, I guess it's a matter not of program versions but on terminal settings. | |
| Aug 31, 2015 at 10:58 | vote | accept | Stéphane Gourichon | ||
| Aug 31, 2015 at 10:19 | answer | added | Celada | timeline score: 16 | |
| Aug 31, 2015 at 9:45 | comment | added | meuh | seems to work for me with sleep. bash 4.3.39 | |
| Aug 31, 2015 at 9:37 | history | asked | Stéphane Gourichon | CC BY-SA 3.0 |