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Comment by yutyut | Hacker News Reader

Ctrl+R lets you search old commands in a similar way. I would say it's more intuitive, too.

Not to mention that it doesn't require you to take you right hand off the home row.

And you get to keep using the up arrow to go to your previous command.

> And you get to keep using the up arrow to go to your previous command.

Ctrl+P :)

This is the truly great part. It's the same reason I use emacs.

use vim mode, then j,k.

Bind:

    Control-p: history-search-backward
    Control-n: history-search-forward

Then how do you go to the previous command without leaving the home row?

Still works if you haven't typed anything yet. If you have (and don't want it as your search):

    C-a C-k C-p