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Comment by geoka9 | Hacker News Reader

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

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

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.