From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (list@euclid.skiles.gatech.edu [130.207.146.50]) by melb.werple.net.au (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id AAA09093 for ; Wed, 1 May 1996 00:16:35 +1000 (EST) Received: (from list@localhost) by euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA02724; Tue, 30 Apr 1996 10:04:35 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1996 10:03:06 -0400 (EDT) From: Zefram Message-Id: <25779.199604301352@stone.dcs.warwick.ac.uk> Subject: Re: vi-history-search-*ward To: sverre@iki.fi Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1996 14:52:34 +0100 (BST) Cc: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu (Z Shell users mailing list) In-Reply-To: <199604301308.QAA17053@nike.spices> from "Sverre Slotte" at Apr 30, 96 04:08:57 pm X-Loop: zefram@dcs.warwick.ac.uk X-Stardate: [-31]7432.89 X-US-Congress: Moronic fuckers MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Resent-Message-ID: <"9lj9Z.0.ff.QsXXn"@euclid> Resent-From: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/194 X-Loop: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu > 2.5.03> bindkey -a / > vi-history-search-backward > > 2.6-beta14> bindkey -a / > vi-history-search-forward > >This is indeed logical, but my fingers think this is wrong; they should >prefer to search through history with /. This can easily be >accomplished through an explicit bindkey-statement in my .zshrc-file, >but I feel a proper shell should to the RightThing=AE by default. > >Feature or oversight? Feature. It is, as you say, more logical: I've been working on making ZLE's vi mode emulate vi, rather than ksh's vi mode. If you dislike this particular binding (and I can see why one might), just rebind it in your .zshrc. -zefram