Reverse search in PowerShell ISE wanted

Question

In Bash, you can reverse search your history using Ctrl-R and start typing. Is there a similar feature in Windows PowerShell ISE?

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 24 '17 at 07:45

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The solution is to press #, type the partial match of the wanted command and complete by pressing tab.

answered Mar 24 '17 at 07:45

Michael S.

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered May 17 '18 at 19:04

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To anyone visiting in May 2018 and beyond, Ctrl + R does work in Powershell now

answered May 17 '18 at 19:04

Daniel Kotin

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 13 '24 at 10:51

for me knowing that pressing #stringTab in powershell works pretty the same as backward incremental search was usefull. source

#stringTab - Search the history for and returns the most recent match. If you press Tab repeatedly, it cycles through the matching items in your history.

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