From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4724 invoked from network); 31 Jan 1997 22:05:25 -0000 Received: from euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (list@130.207.146.50) by coral.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 31 Jan 1997 22:05:25 -0000 Received: (from list@localhost) by euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id QAA05783; Fri, 31 Jan 1997 16:55:03 -0500 (EST) Resent-Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 16:55:03 -0500 (EST) From: "Bart Schaefer" Message-Id: <970131140102.ZM20376@candle.brasslantern.com> Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 14:01:02 -0800 In-Reply-To: Zoltan Hidvegi "Re: history-search-backward" (Jan 31, 8:02pm) References: <199701311902.UAA16022@bolyai.cs.elte.hu> <199701311913.LAA19406@bebop.clari.net> In-Reply-To: Wayne Davison "Re: history-search-backward" (Jan 31, 11:13am) Reply-To: schaefer@nbn.com X-Mailer: Z-Mail (4.0b.820 20aug96) To: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Subject: Re: history-search-backward MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Resent-Message-ID: <"8k6gu1.0.FQ1.tecyo"@euclid> Resent-From: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/2862 X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu On Jan 31, 8:02pm, Zoltan Hidvegi wrote: } Subject: Re: history-search-backward } } Peter Stephenson wrote: } > Zefram wrote: } > > That's what history-beginning-search-backward is for. It may cause } > > confusion, but only minimally, as the old behaviour wasn't documented. } > } > Problem is, history-beginning-search-backward only got added a few } > versions ago and has never been bound } } I think it would be a good idea to make history beginning-search bound to } M-p and M-n by default instead of history-search. I personally never use } history-search, I always found it quite useless as history-beginning-* is } much better. } } In fact, in tcsh M-p is bount to history-beginning instead of history search. } } Any objections to change this default? I don't object to that default, but I still think the old behavior of history-search-* should be restored. On Jan 31, 11:13am, Wayne Davison wrote: } Subject: Re: history-search-backward } } Peter Stephenson writes: } > Looks like another incompatibility got in while I wasn't paying much } > attention: ^[p will only search backwards on complete words. } } I don't think anyone objected except me, which I found surprising. I'd have objected if I'd seen it. I still have a slew of zsh mail that I stashed away while on my midwinter's holiday; there must be something about this in there, where I haven't gotten to it yet. (I also haven't had a chance to build a new zsh since then, unfortunately.) } I think the new method is less versatile. Sure it agrees with the } man page, but it would have been just as easy to fix the manual. Agree completely. -- Bart Schaefer Brass Lantern Enterprises http://www.well.com/user/barts http://www.nbn.com/people/lantern