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How to Navigate within bash's Reverse Search?

Bash offers the functionality to reverse search via Ctrl + R. Then one can type in a part of a command it will show a fitting entry from the history. Assume this is my history: vim foo1 vim foo2 # I ...
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Search commands in history with discontinuous keywords

I was wondering how to search commands in history without knowing the first few letters of the command? When searching using Ctrl-R in bash, one has to give the first few letter of the command. ...