From: Zefram <A.Main@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>
To: jdl@clinicom.com (J.D. Laub)
Cc: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu
Subject: Re: zsh, vi mode, vihistorysearchbackward
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1996 18:04:50 +0100 (BST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <27400.199606191704@stone.dcs.warwick.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199606191644.KAA199639@clinicom.com> from "J.D. Laub" at Jun 19, 96 10:44:27 am
>I can see how "/" should seem to be "search forward" and "?" should be
>"search backward", but this works exactly opposite as it did before.
We are trying to emulate vi, rather than ksh. As a vi user, I find the
new bindings much more intuitive -- ? is a backward search, so that's
what I use to search backward through the history.
>I've used a couple bindkeys in my own .zshrc to switch the two
>functions (putting "backwards" back on "/"), but I'm pushing others
>here to switch from ksh to zsh, and I think the default behavior
>will confuse them (since the default bindings work exactly opposite
>as ksh in vi mode). Anybody (dis)agree with switching them back?
If you really want to have the default state match ksh, give everyone a
.zshrc including these bindings.
-zefram
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1996-06-19 18:02 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 [this message]
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
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