u'''Search forward through the history for the string of characters
        between the start of the current line and the point. This is a
        non-incremental search. By default, this command is unbound.

def history_search_forward(self, e):  # ()
        u'''Search forward through the history for the string of characters
        between the start of the current line and the point. This is a
        non-incremental search. By default, this command is unbound.'''
        if (self.previous_func and
            hasattr(self._history, self.previous_func.__name__)):
            self._history.lastcommand = getattr(self._history,
                                                self.previous_func.__name__)
        else:
            self._history.lastcommand = None
        q = self._history.history_search_forward(self.l_buffer)
        self.l_buffer = q
        self.l_buffer.point = q.point
        self.finalize()