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  zge 3 years ago | link
  
  Also worth reading: bash(1).
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  inactive-user 3 years ago | link
  The most useful thing for me is making the up arrow only list completions starting with what I already typed. So if I type ls<Up> it will only list completion items starting with ls. I find it much more useful/accurate than <C-r> searching.
  
  In zshrc:
  
  autoload -Uz up-line-or-beginning-search down-line-or-beginning-search zle -N up-line-or-beginning-search zle -N down-line-or-beginning-search bindkey '^[[A' up-line-or-beginning-search # Arrow up bindkey '^[OA' up-line-or-beginning-search bindkey '^[[B' down-line-or-beginning-search # Arrow down bindkey '^[OB' down-line-or-beginning-search
  
  And inputrc:
  
  # Up/down arrows "\e[A": history-search-backward "\e[B": history-search-forward
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    valpackett 3 years ago | link
    
    I’ve been using zsh-history-substring-search which returns items containing the string anywhere (like <C-r> search) on the <Up> key. I usually do want to match on some middle part of the command, even though I do sometimes run something that I don’t want because I do it too fast :D