cygwin terminal shortcut up/down key half edited commands not recognized

Question

I have a problem accessing partially matched commands in Cygwin using the up/down keys. Partially entering a command and hitting the up/down keys just loops through the entire history.

Please let me know how to search for previous commands using a partially entered command. Do I have to add anything to .bashrc?

@anishsane why don't you make that an answer to the question and link to the relevant bash man page section? — Jon, Apr 20 '15 at 14:48
possible duplicate of [Cygwin shortcut for command history](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6380169/cygwin-shortcut-for-command-history) — Jon, Apr 20 '15 at 14:49

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 21 '15 at 03:55

To search for matching commands in history, the key-stroke is ctrl + r : link to manual.

UP/DOWN keys are used to navigate the history.

However, if you want, you can change the key-bindings using the built-in command: bind.

e.g. Below command maps ^Y to reverse search history. ^Y is typed as ctrl+Vctrl+Y

bind '"^Y": reverse-search-history'

cygwin terminal shortcut up/down key half edited commands not recognized

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