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Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:40:32 -0700
From: Wayne Davison <wayned@users.sourceforge.net>
To: Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@gmail.com>
Cc: zsh-workers <zsh-workers@sunsite.dk>
Subject: Re: oddity with history-incremental-{,pattern-}search-backward
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On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 11:42:40PM +0200, Mikael Magnusson wrote:
> when i press backspace, it seems to somehow erase the ^r going forward
> in history again.

Right, that's how incremental search works in emacs, and thus how it
works in zsh's emacs-like searching.

..wayne..