You can configure zsh to use glob pattern matching when reverse searching the history using ctrl-r . For example you can do ctrl-r wordA*wordB and it will match

You can configure zsh to use glob pattern matching when reverse searching the history using ctrl-r . For example you can do ctrl-r wordA*wordB and it will match commands where wordA is followed by wordB with zero or more number of characters in between. I wrote about it in http://raju.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Search_command_line_history_using_glob_pattern_matching http://raju.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Search_command_line_history_u... . AFAIK bash does not have this and it is the killer feature for me.