How do you tell Ctrl + R reverse-i-search to "reset itself" and start searching from the bottom of your history every time?
Background: When using reverse-i-search in Bash, I always get stuck once it is finished searching up through the history and it cannot find any more matches. Sometimes I hit Esc and re-invoke Ctrl + R a second time, expecting it to start a fresh new search from the bottom of my history. However, the "pointer" still seems to be at the previous place it left off in my history.
The problem is, I usually do not want this behavior. If I hit Esc, and then re-invoke Ctrl + R, I would like that to indicate it should restart from the bottom again and work its way back up.
I am using Cygwin on Windows, as none of the so-far mentioned solutions work.
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My Bash works as you are expecting. Maybe hitting Ctrl + C instead of Esc can help.
Also, you can search forward using Ctrl + S.
Ctrl + S works if it does not send a "stop" to your terminal, i.e., if "stty -a" gives you "-ixon". You can change it by "stty -ixon".
Thanks to @Phil for reminder.