From: "Bart Schaefer" <schaefer@candle.brasslantern.com>
To: Peter Stephenson <pws@ifh.de>,
zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu (Zsh hackers list),
Zefram <zefram@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: history-search-backward
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 07:02:01 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <970131070201.ZM18974@candle.brasslantern.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Peter Stephenson <pws@ifh.de> "history-search-backward" (Jan 31, 11:47am)
In-Reply-To: Zefram <zefram@dcs.warwick.ac.uk> "Re: history-search-backward" (Jan 31, 12:16pm)
In-Reply-To: Peter Stephenson <pws@ifh.de> "Re: history-search-backward" (Jan 31, 1:42pm)
On Jan 31, 11:47am, Peter Stephenson wrote:
} Subject: history-search-backward
}
} 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.
I have to completely agree with Peter here.
I have both history-search-backward and history-beginning-search-backward
bound to keys, and use them for different things, but in both cases I
expect them to work on partial words; the only difference I expect is
whether they match against a prefix of the first word or a prefix of the
whole line.
On Jan 31, 12:16pm, Zefram wrote:
} Subject: Re: history-search-backward
}
} That's what history-beginning-search-backward is for. It may cause
} confusion, but only minimally, as the old behaviour wasn't documented.
I think you have no idea how wrong you are.
On Jan 31, 1:42pm, Peter Stephenson wrote:
} Subject: Re: history-search-backward
}
} Problem is, history-beginning-search-backward only got added a few
} versions ago and has never been bound, while the
} history-search-backward behaviour, partly inherited from tcsh, has
} been around for years and years whether documented or not and I don't
} imagine the general confusion will be any less.
Exactly.
} It should go in the NEWS file when the release becomes official and
} I'll put it in the FAQ.
I can't accept that as sufficient in this case.
--
Bart Schaefer Brass Lantern Enterprises
http://www.well.com/user/barts http://www.nbn.com/people/lantern
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1997-01-31 15:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 74+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-01-31 10:47 history-search-backward Peter Stephenson
1997-01-31 12:16 ` history-search-backward Zefram
1997-01-31 12:42 ` history-search-backward Peter Stephenson
1997-01-31 15:02 ` Bart Schaefer [this message]
1997-01-31 15:23 ` history-search-backward Vinnie Shelton
1997-01-31 19:02 ` history-search-backward Zoltan Hidvegi
1997-01-31 19:13 ` history-search-backward Wayne Davison
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-04-27 19:54 comptest* failed to load module: zsh/termcap Peter Whaite
2001-04-28 6:10 ` Bart Schaefer
2001-04-28 8:55 ` Andrej Borsenkow
2001-04-30 15:44 ` Peter Whaite
2001-04-30 16:30 ` Bart Schaefer
2001-04-30 16:47 ` Andrej Borsenkow
2001-04-30 17:16 ` PATCH: " Bart Schaefer
2001-04-30 18:54 ` Peter Whaite
2001-04-30 19:12 ` Bart Schaefer
2001-04-30 15:32 ` Peter Whaite
1996-12-13 2:30 fifo configure check Zoltan Hidvegi
1996-10-31 14:41 Parameter expansion bug? Anthony Heading
1996-10-31 15:13 ` Hrvoje Niksic
1996-10-31 16:12 ` Zoltan Hidvegi
1996-10-31 20:49 ` Anthony Heading
[not found] <17651.199607222123@stone.dcs.warwick.ac.uk>
1996-07-23 14:08 ` Bug in case stmt with '(' Zoltan Hidvegi
1996-07-23 16:25 ` Bart Schaefer
1996-06-22 20:12 BUG: useheap in doexpandhist() Bart Schaefer
1996-06-02 17:59 Builtin append() and prepend() to PATH, CDPATH, etc Fung-Chai Lim
1996-06-02 21:26 ` Zoltan Hidvegi
[not found] ` <1062.199606041027@stone.dcs.warwick.ac.uk>
1996-04-10 10:31 History file locking? Russell Senior
1996-04-10 12:12 ` Zefram
1996-04-10 12:41 ` Zoltan Hidvegi
1996-04-10 12:50 ` Zefram
[not found] ` <A.Main@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>
1996-04-10 16:26 ` Barton E. Schaefer
1996-04-10 17:08 ` Anthony Heading
[not found] ` <aheading@jpmorgan.com>
1996-04-10 17:12 ` Barton E. Schaefer
1996-04-10 18:03 ` Anthony Heading
1996-06-05 21:25 ` Builtin append() and prepend() to PATH, CDPATH, etc Bart Schaefer
[not found] ` <schaefer@candle.brasslantern.com>
1996-06-10 19:22 ` Clinton Bunch
1996-06-10 19:54 ` Bart Schaefer
1996-06-10 20:24 ` Hrvoje Niksic
1996-06-10 20:58 ` Clinton Bunch
1996-06-24 18:26 ` BUG: useheap in doexpandhist() Barton E. Schaefer
1996-06-24 19:11 ` Zoltan Hidvegi
1996-06-24 21:20 ` Barton E. Schaefer
1996-06-25 0:01 ` Zoltan Hidvegi
1996-06-25 0:22 ` Barton E. Schaefer
1996-07-23 20:01 ` Bug in case stmt with '(' Morris M. Siegel
1996-07-23 21:55 ` Bart Schaefer
1996-07-24 8:29 ` Zefram
1996-07-24 9:52 ` Peter Stephenson
1996-07-24 11:10 ` Bart Schaefer
1996-07-24 14:16 ` Zoltan Hidvegi
1996-04-10 21:21 ` History file locking? Zoltan Hidvegi
1996-03-12 19:03 Buffered stderr on Linux Zoltan Hidvegi
1996-03-12 19:24 ` Bart Schaefer
1996-03-12 20:26 ` Zoltan Hidvegi
1996-03-12 23:17 ` Zoltan Hidvegi
1996-03-13 0:16 ` Steven L Baur
[not found] ` <hzoli@cs.elte.hu>
1996-03-16 18:46 ` Bart Schaefer
1996-04-10 21:41 ` History file locking? Barton E. Schaefer
1996-04-10 22:16 ` Daniel Dignam
1996-06-26 13:51 ` Use of qualifiers without glob pattern? Bart Schaefer
1996-06-26 14:01 ` Regression tests Bas V. de Bakker
1996-06-26 14:52 ` Use of qualifiers without glob pattern? Zoltan Hidvegi
1996-06-26 15:54 ` Bart Schaefer
1996-06-27 1:03 ` Zoltan Hidvegi
1996-10-31 16:55 ` Parameter expansion bug? Bart Schaefer
1996-10-31 16:57 ` Hrvoje Niksic
1996-10-31 17:04 ` Zoltan Hidvegi
1996-10-31 17:47 ` Bart Schaefer
1996-12-13 3:37 ` fifo configure check Bart Schaefer
1996-12-13 8:58 ` fifo configure check (seems to work here: Solaris 2.4) C. v. Stuckrad
1996-12-13 14:44 ` fifo configure check Zefram
1996-12-13 17:33 ` Zoltan Hidvegi
[not found] ` <wayne@clari.net>
1997-01-31 22:01 ` history-search-backward Bart Schaefer
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