I switched solely for the reason Zsh has command substring search. It's a huge t...

qznc · on July 23, 2012

Ctrl-R in bash?

ComputerGuru · on July 23, 2012

No, substring searches.

Ctrl+R in bash (by default, at least) will not search from the middle of a command. For instance, if the previous command was "hello", searching for "ello" will not bring it up. Whereas with zsh, it will.

haberman · on July 23, 2012

The default bash on OS X (3.2.48(1)-release) just did when I tried it.

lloeki · on July 23, 2012

Ctrl+R definitely works that way with bash, but I think he may be referencing tab completion:

    > ell<TAB>
    Completing external command
    git-shell  xdmshell   xkbbell  
    Completing shell function
    _ispell

rcfox · on July 24, 2012

I wish there were ido-style searching, where typing "slstr" would match "some long string". (Provided, of course, there were no other strings that were a closer match.)