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Originally Posted by indiana_tas ... But one thing I really adore about bash and tcsh is that you can use time-saving history recall options, like: Code: $! - return last option to the previous command

I hate the hijacking of a printing character (!). When I press !, I expect to see an exclamation mark. Therefore I always set histchars to an empty string to disable that annoying misfeature.

Bash has excellent functions for history search: history-search-backward, history-search-forward, reverse-search-history. I have them bound to UP, DOWN, and ^R respectively.