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Re: Interactive search on the command line?

On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 9:04 AM, Dominik Vogt <vogt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Is there a way to do an interactive search (or at least a
> non-interactive string search) in the command line editor?  I
> often have extremely long gcc command lines where I want to delete
> an option or do some editing in the middle of the command line,
> and moving the cursor to the interesting spot is quite tedious.

You can use ctrl-r for this. (eg, history-incremental-*-search-*).

Another useful trick on long command lines is to type alt-300 or some
suitably large number before pressing left/right.

-- 
Mikael Magnusson
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