• In bash, pressing [CTRL]+[r] will open the reverse-i-search prompt.
• How can I search the zsh history in a similar way?

Note: The search query will hit the middle of the full command only, instead of match at it's beginning as required by the normal zsh search.

1 Answer

To make zsh behave like bash when pressing [CTRL]+[r]:

# for non-pattern search like in bash
bindkey "^R" history-incremental-search-backward`

or

# for pattern search (the wildcard `*` will use zsh completion)
bindkey "^R" history-incremental-pattern-search-backward

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Note: Add the line to your ~/.zshrc to make it permanent.

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