Re: Better way to execute commands from history?

[sam reckoner <sam.reckoner@xxxxxxxxx>]

By the way, I get the following error when I try the bindkey:

No such widget `history-incremental-pattern-search-backward'

I'm not sure I'm using the right version.

% zsh --version
zsh 4.3.4 (i686-pc-cygwin)


Thanks again.

On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 1:24 PM, Mikael Magnusson<mikachu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 2009/9/2 sam reckoner <sam.reckoner@xxxxxxxxx>:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am in the habit of doing the following:
>>
>> % fc -l -1000| grep -i cd | grep -i link | tail -1 | cut -d" " -f3
>>
>> which gives me the number of the command that contains both "cd" and
>> "link" in it. I then manually type in
>>
>> % !num
>>
>> where num is the output of the first command. I know there is a C-R
>> command, but doing it as above makes it possible to search the entire
>> string in the history list for multiple items.
>>
>> I'm sure there's a better way to do this.
>
> If you rebind ^R (and ^[^R) to history-incremental-pattern-search-forward
> (the default is without the "pattern-"), you can press ^R and type cd*link
> to get the same result, but you can iterate backwards as usual too.
>
> bindkey "^R"   history-incremental-pattern-search-backward
> bindkey "^[^R" history-incremental-pattern-search-forward
>
>
> --
> Mikael Magnusson
>