From: Vinnie Shelton <shelton@icd.teradyne.com>
To: Richard Coleman <coleman@math.gatech.edu>
Cc: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu
Subject: Re: zsh, vi mode, vihistorysearchbackward
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1996 20:10:00 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <199606200010.UAA20061@spacely.icd.teradyne.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: coleman's message of Wed, 19 Jun 1996 18:47:12 -0400. <199606192247.SAA03664@redwood.skiles.gatech.edu>
coleman@math.gatech.edu said:
> I think the interpretation should be that "/" searches the `natural'
> direction (whatever that is) and "?" searches the reverse of that.
> With that interpretation, the previous behavoir is more natural. As
> Bart said, you rarely ever want to search forward (down) the history.
> The `natural' direction is always to search up the history.
I much prefer this interpretation. I'd like to see '/' restored as the
natural search character in vi mode.
--vin
prev parent reply other threads:[~1996-06-20 0:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-06-19 16:44 J.D. Laub
1996-06-19 17:04 ` Zefram
1996-06-19 18:01 ` Hrvoje Niksic
1996-06-19 19:21 ` Zefram
1996-06-19 18:58 ` Barton E. Schaefer
1996-06-19 22:47 ` Richard Coleman
1996-06-20 0:10 ` Vinnie Shelton [this message]
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