Most of the time I know the starting characters of the command I want, so I use up/down arrow instead of Ctrl+r. You'll need this in `.inputrc` # use up an

Most of the time I know the starting characters of the command I want, so I use up/down arrow instead of Ctrl+r. You'll need this in `.inputrc` # use up and down arrow to match search history based on typed starting text "\e[A": history-search-backward "\e[B": history-search-forward