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Re: zshzle: aborting history search

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From: Wayne Davison <wayned@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Georg Neis <georg@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: zshzle: aborting history search
Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2004 11:47:43 -0700
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On Sat, Jul 17, 2004 at 04:49:01PM -0000, Georg Neis wrote:
> How can I abort history-incremental-search-backward *without* losing
> the text that I'm searching for (useful when zsh says "failing
> bck-i-search")?

If you want to go back to where you started your search, just press
Ctrl-G.  If you want to stay on the current line, execute almost any
editor-movement command, such as Ctrl-E, Ctrl-B, Right-Arrow, etc.

..wayne..

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