In this mode the string you enter is regarded as a perl regex which is used to do an incremental histroy search.

Pressing '^R' repeatingly will give alternative results.

Special keys like movements or the "return" drop you out of this mode and set the edit line to the last search result.

Copyright (c) 2004 Jaap G Karssenberg. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.