From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1818 invoked from network); 31 Jan 1997 12:27:32 -0000 Received: from euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (list@130.207.146.50) by coral.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 31 Jan 1997 12:27:32 -0000 Received: (from list@localhost) by euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id HAA10237; Fri, 31 Jan 1997 07:14:54 -0500 (EST) Resent-Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 07:14:54 -0500 (EST) From: Zefram Message-Id: <8860.199701311216@stone.dcs.warwick.ac.uk> Subject: Re: history-search-backward To: pws@ifh.de (Peter Stephenson) Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 12:16:18 +0000 (GMT) Cc: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu In-Reply-To: <199701311047.LAA22677@hydra.ifh.de> from "Peter Stephenson" at Jan 31, 97 11:47:08 am X-Loop: zefram@dcs.warwick.ac.uk X-Stardate: [-31]8812.55 X-US-Congress: Moronic fuckers Content-Type: text Resent-Message-ID: <"Cdp-Q2.0.uV2.z8Uyo"@euclid> Resent-From: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/2853 X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu Peter Stephenson wrote: >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. That's what history-beginning-search-backward is for. It may cause confusion, but only minimally, as the old behaviour wasn't documented. -zefram