I always found it most useful to have up and down arrows search through history for what I've already typed. So to run my tests via Gradle, I usually just type

I always found it most useful to have up and down arrows search through history for what I've already typed. So to run my tests via Gradle, I usually just type ’.g‘ followed by up arrow. I think I set it up with ‘‘‘ "\e[A": history-search-backward "\e[B": history-search-forward ’’’ (Not near a computer right now to confirm) I find this somehow much faster than C-r