I consider this misinformation and makes my blood boil. I feel like the author learn partial information and decided to write a blog about without researching f

I consider this misinformation and makes my blood boil. I feel like the author learn partial information and decided to write a blog about without researching further... ctrl-R is not bash, it's GNU readline. http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/php/chet/readline/rluserman.html http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/php/chet/readline/rluserman.html If you are going to use command line, than absolutely you should use command history editing, but why limiting yourself to a few commands learned through osmosis or haphazardly rather than use a full editor? Why use C-r to search backwards, but not M-backspace to delete an entire word? When I explain this, people usually argue that "there are two many weird commands to learn, and I only need the few I know". The same type of people often go on a rant about how much vim is so much better than emacs. There are not weird command to learn, none, zero! Use your preferred editor! You already know it, you already know all those commands, and if you don't buy a book and learn them! You know and like emacs? Great, that's the default in readline. Go ahead C-r, C-backspace, C-a, C-e, M-f all you need. You already know all of those. But you don't like emacs, or don't even know that it exists beside the fact that it's something fun to shit on? You think you're a big shot because you know vim really well? Not an issue, type the magic command "set -o vi" and you are now in vi mode, you can esc-/ to search, esc-k to call the last command, and once editing a command, cw to change word, $ to go to the end of the line, etc... I do not buy "I'm a vim person, but I just use ctrl-R and the arrows", because you are basically limiting yourself just because you had not realised readline is a full editor. You have nothing to learn, just set the editor mode in your preferred editor mode, and start using it, trust me, you will start getting use to it and use its power very quickly. BONUS: It' snot just bash! Any program that use readline can do the same! psql etc... use it (or a something like readline, because of GPL vs non-gpl etc...). BONUS 2: You can use readline with software that don't use it, it's call rlwrap. Go ahead, use "rlwrap sqlplus" once, then try to use oracle without it!