How to reverse-i-search back and forth?

I use

reverse-i-search

often, and that's cool. Sometime though when pressing

Ctrl+r

multiple times, I pass the command I am actually looking for. Because

Ctrl+r

searches backward in history, from newest to oldest, I have to:

While in

reverse-i-search

prompt, is it possible to search forward, i.e. from where I stand to newest. I naively tried

Ctrl+shift+r

, no luck. I heard about

Ctrl+g

but this is not what I am expecting here. Anyone has an idea?

gdupont

Answer Source

There is a similar question here:

Found another similar question on Super User:

Apparently, both mention Ctrl+s, which may do the trick.

Hope that helps. I myself am trying to find a piece of code that does the reverse-i-search in order to check how it has been implemented exactly.

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