The article feels incomplete for not not mentioning the bash built-in called bind. It allows you to work with the reeadline bindings.
I use Ctrl-R a lot to find previous commands from my shell history. Often I have to press Ctrl-R several or even many times to find the right one. And then it happens that I overshoot and would like to change the search direction. Unfortunately forward-search-history is on Ctrl-S, which is overloaded by flow control. Occasionally I use flow control, so I cannot remove that. What solution are others using to get forward-search-history?
I use Ctrl-R a lot to find previous commands from my shell history. Often I have to press Ctrl-R several or even many times to find the right one. And then it happens that I overshoot and would like to change the search direction. Unfortunately forward-search-history is on Ctrl-S, which is overloaded by flow control. Occasionally I use flow control, so I cannot remove that. What solution are others using to get forward-search-history?