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From: Greg Klanderman <gak@klanderman.net>
To: zsh-workers@zsh.org
Subject: Re: PATCH: muddled completion search status
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2015 22:23:11 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <871thbvzsg.fsf@lwm.klanderman.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <150616171549.ZM28192@torch.brasslantern.com> (Bart Schaefer's message of "Tue, 16 Jun 2015 17:15:49 -0700")

>>>>> On June 16, 2015 Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com> wrote:

> Unless I misunderstand you, repeating a search in emacs searches again
> for the last-searched-for string no matter which direction the new
> search is going.  The same is true for vi's "n" or "N" command for
> searching again up/downward.  Why do you think it's wrong to restore
> the last search string?  I would prefer not to break similarity (I won't
> go so far as to say "compatibility") with emacs in this regard.

If I understand, he's actually making it more emacs-compatible.

Emacs only restores your last search when you hit the same direction
search keys twice in a row; if you hit C-s C-r is does not restore the
last search, it merely switches direction.

Greg


  reply	other threads:[~2015-06-17  2:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-06-16 10:29 Oliver Kiddle
2015-06-16 22:35 ` Oliver Kiddle
2015-06-17  0:15   ` Bart Schaefer
2015-06-17  2:23     ` Greg Klanderman [this message]
2015-06-17  9:05     ` Oliver Kiddle

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