From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1716 invoked from network); 31 Jan 1997 11:00:47 -0000 Received: from euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (list@130.207.146.50) by coral.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 31 Jan 1997 11:00:47 -0000 Received: (from list@localhost) by euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id FAA08136; Fri, 31 Jan 1997 05:45:30 -0500 (EST) Resent-Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 05:45:30 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199701311047.LAA22677@hydra.ifh.de> To: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu (Zsh hackers list) Subject: history-search-backward Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 11:47:08 +0100 From: Peter Stephenson Resent-Message-ID: <"OSStG1.0.0_1.ArSyo"@euclid> Resent-From: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/2852 X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu Looks like another incompatibility got in while I wasn't paying much attention: ^[p will only search backwards on complete words. (I remember the discussion, not the conclusion, I presume this is intentional.) It seems to me this is going to cause lots of zsh users endless confusion when they type part of a word, then ^[p, and nothing happens. It's also incompatible with the tcsh binding (it always was a bit, but not so drastically). It makes it essentially useless for me, too, since I use it as a way of abbreviating the first word of a command, but that's personal taste and I can live with history-beginning-search-backward. -- Peter Stephenson Tel: +49 33762 77366 WWW: http://www.ifh.de/~pws/ Fax: +49 33762 77413 Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron --- Institut fuer Hochenergiephysik Zeuthen DESY-IfH, 15735 Zeuthen, Germany.