Tom Lane wrote:
> "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com> writes:
> > control-R isn't real useful for 17 queries that are exactly the same
> > except for 3 different join clauses. It also isn't useful when you don't
> > know exactly what query you are looking for.
>
> ... but, somehow, you know exactly what command number it has?
Well, presumably \s would give you the numbers. "history" does on bash anyway.
I use it on bash all the time: I do "history | grep something" and then
!<number of command I want>.
I don't think we can do the "| grep" part, but it's useful anyway.
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