[lignuist]

I am looking for something that lets me type the first few letters and when I press the arrow-up key then (maybe in combination with another key), it will only offer those items from the history, which match my previous input.

Something like:

Type:

> ssh

press arrow-up:

> ssh [e-mail]

press arrow-up:

> ssh [e-mail]

[tambourine_man]

Not sure if that's what you want, but have you tried this in your .inputrc?

  "\e[B": history-search-forward
  "\e[A": history-search-backward

[JelteF]

You can also put this in your bashrc:

  bind '"\e[A":history-search-backward'
  bind '"\e[B":history-search-forward'

It's one of the things I always tell people to use since it makes using bash so much easier.

[lignuist]

Looks interesting. How would I use that afterwards?

[bretthoerner]

Type, say, 's' and then press your up arrow.

[TeMPOraL]

Fish does that by default.

[stith]

You can do that in bash with ctrl+r:

Type: ctrl+r

Type: ssh

Bash says:

(reverse-i-search)`ssh': ssh [e-mail]

Type again: ctrl+r

(reverse-i-search)`ssh': ssh [e-mail]

[cshenoy]

oh-my-zsh[1] does that for me. It's a pretty great function.

1. https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh

[jlgreco]

The history-beginning-search-backward widget, which is standard to the zsh line editor, does it. You don't need to pull in all of oh-my-zsh.

To use it, I use:

  bindkey "^[[A" history-beginning-search-backward

[jevinskie]

This seems to have been broken for me unless I add DEBIAN_PREVENT_KEYBOARD_CHANGES=yes to my .zshenv. I'm not sure if it was an update to ZSH, oh-my-zsh, or Ubuntu that causes the issue.

[josteink]

Im using oh-my-zsh, but I cant find this one. Care to enlighten me which option or plugin I should enable? :)

Edit: Seems ctrl-up and ctrl-down does the trick.

[Spittie]

I'm using https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-history-substring-search

It emulates the Fish behavior (which is just awesome). I'm not sure if it requires oh-my-zsh, but I think it doesn't.

[josteink]

It's actually a plugin bundled with oh-my-zsh, but I copy-pasted the default keybindings from the github page you linked, and it's indeed pretty awesome.

[vially]

Not exactly what you're asking for but: Alt + Up might help.

From the docs: Alt-Up and Alt-Down search the command history for the previous/next token containing the token under the cursor before the search was started. If the commandline was not on a token when the search started, all tokens match. See the history section for more information on history searching. [1]

[1] - http://fishshell.com/docs/2.1/

[lunixbochs]

Up does this by default. Alt+Up is useful for searching a single word through history

I know of three history completion modes in fish.

Full command search: start typing a command and press Up. This will search for entire commands matching your query.

Word search: type any letters in a command, then press Alt+Up. This will cycle only the current word based on a substring match of your query. Useful for hostnames, filenames, etc.

Context-sensitive: If fish 'previews' the rest of a line as a lighter color text, press the right arrow key to complete. This is sensitive to the current directory and available files. If you go into a directory, `touch filename`, `cat filename`, and type `cat`, it will preview `cat filename` for you. Pressing the right arrow key will type it. If you `rm filename` or change directory, `cat filename` will no longer appear.

[Osiris]

This is actually the feature of fish I use the most and is the primary reason I always install fish on my servers. Automatic history search using the up-arrow is fantastic.

[quarterto]

Ctrl+R.

[krcz]

In my Fedora Linux bash page-up works like that.

[siteshwar]

fish does this too when you press up arrow key.

[patrickg]

bash: "\C-p": history-search-backward in ~/.inputrc

[iron_ball]

Or in .bashrc:

bind "C-p":history-search-backward

bind "C-n":history-search-forward

[mineo]

This is what the arrow-up key in ZSH does by default.

[mmgutz]

On my box, zsh only searches based on the first word. Other options, in comments above, search on multi words. For example "git push" then up arrow works expected.

[chanux]

In your ~/.inputrc

"\e[A": history-search-backward

"\e[B": history-search-forward

[nzp]

Tcsh does just that by default (at least on FreeBSD).

[rsync]

I have been doing this for over a decade with csh.

[lignuist]

Thanks for all the tips! :)

[pacefalm]

zsh does that