Re: [9fans] Look backwards in acme?

Re: [9fans] Look backwards in acme?

[YAMANASHI Takeshi]

> > than :-/foobar.  Right click will only search forward,

This discussion reminded me of a suggestion to acme UI
I have been having for some while.

When you right click :/foo.bar , the mouse cursor
jumps to the next word matched by the regexp.
This jumping behaviour is a bit annoying if you want to
continue searching words matched by the regexp.
Can't we let stay the cursor on the regexp when you use ":/" or ":-/"?
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Re: [9fans] Look backwards in acme?

[Russ Cox]

> When you right click :/foo.bar , the mouse cursor
> jumps to the next word matched by the regexp.
> This jumping behaviour is a bit annoying if you want to
> continue searching words matched by the regexp.
> Can't we let stay the cursor on the regexp when you use ":/" or ":-/"?

Highlight the expression before clicking,
and then the cursor will stay put.

Russ

Re: [9fans] Look backwards in acme?

[YAMANASHI Takeshi]

> > When you right click :/foo.bar , the mouse cursor
> > jumps to the next word matched by the regexp.
 :
> Highlight the expression before clicking,
> and then the cursor will stay put.

SUPERB!!  thank you so much. :D
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[9fans] Look backwards in acme?

[quanstro]

is it possible to Look toward the beginning of a file with acme?
frequently i am running win and Looking toward the end of a win
window doesn't make much sense.

erik

Re: [9fans] Look backwards in acme?

[Uriel]

>From the "Tip_o'_the_day" wiki page Acme section[1]):

To search backwards for 'foobar' execute:

      :-/foobar

[1]http://plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/Tip_o'_the_day/index.html#ACME%20TIPS

On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 12:45:15AM +0000, quanstro@speakeasy.net wrote:
> is it possible to Look toward the beginning of a file with acme?
> frequently i am running win and Looking toward the end of a win
> window doesn't make much sense.
> 
> erik
> 
> 
> 

Re: [9fans] Look backwards in acme?

[Sam]

>> From the "Tip_o'_the_day" wiki page Acme section[1]):
>
> To search backwards for 'foobar' execute:
>
>      :-/foobar

... or right click even.  ?foobar works as well.

Re: [9fans] Look backwards in acme?

[Russ Cox]

> > To search backwards for 'foobar' execute:
> >
> >      :-/foobar
> 
> ... or right click even.  ?foobar works as well.

"Edit ?foobar" will work, though that's longer
than :-/foobar.  Right click will only search forward,
unless you count wrapping around to the beginning
of the file as searching "backwards".

Russ

Re: [9fans] Look backwards in acme?

[Sam]

>> ... or right click even.  ?foobar works as well.
>
> "Edit ?foobar" will work, though that's longer
> than :-/foobar.  Right click will only search forward,
> unless you count wrapping around to the beginning
> of the file as searching "backwards".

And apparently, I do.