Comment 0 for bug 48880

(Tested only in Breezy. This may work in Dapper.)

In Bash C-r invokes reverse-search-history. Also, pressing C-s is suppossed to invoke forward-search-history. However, it seems there is some strange conflict or bug in bash (or readline) or Ubuntu's setup. There is a workaround [*]:

$ stty -a | fgrep 'stop = '
eol2 = <undef>; start = ^Q; stop = ^S; susp = ^Z; rprnt = ^R; werase = ^W;
$ stty stop undef
$ stty -a | fgrep 'stop = '
eol2 = <undef>; start = ^Q; stop = <undef>; susp = ^Z; rprnt = ^R; werase = ^W;
Once we've made this change, Control-S then works for using forward-search-history

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