mysql cli has always had reverse search (ctrl+r) because it was built on readline. They actually recently disabled it, indirectly, because they switched to edit

mysql cli has always had reverse search (ctrl+r) because it was built on readline. They actually recently disabled it, indirectly, because they switched to editline. So now you gotta configure it via ~/.editrc http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=60465 http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=60465