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Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2010 22:55:20 +0200
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Subject: Re: Please fix history-search-backward/forward
From: Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@gmail.com>
To: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
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On 28 August 2010 20:54, Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> zle says:
> Search backward in the history for a line beginning with the first
> word in the buffer.
>
> GNU readline says:
> Search backward through the history for the string of characters
> between the start of the current line and the point.
>
> I don't see why anybody would want zle's behavior. When I type "git
> check<TAB>"; I expect the whole text to be searched; if I wanted only
> the first word, I would type only the first word "git <TAB>". There's
> absolutely no advantage of zle's way.
>
> Now, it possible to workaround that behavior through
> history-search-end[1]. However, I would expect such basic
> functionality to be a one-liner configuration, or even better, just
> make zle's history-search-backward work like that by default.
>
> Moreover, it seems nobody has found necessary to workaround readline's
> behavior to mimic zle's behavior, and with good reason I think.
>
> This is a small issue, but it would improve the initial experience of
> people trying zsh.
>
> [1] http://zsh.sourceforge.net/Doc/Release/User-Contributions.html
>

I think you want history-beginning-search-backward/forward ? Changing
the effects of a widget is (and I think I can say this quite safely)
is not really an option.

-- 
Mikael Magnusson