From: Zefram <zefram@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>
To: wayne@clari.net (Wayne Davison)
Cc: zefram@dcs.warwick.ac.uk, zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu
Subject: Re: history search bug{,fix}
Date: Sat, 4 Jan 1997 23:47:38 +0000 (GMT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9885.199701042347@stone.dcs.warwick.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199701042334.PAA19601@bebop.clari.net> from "Wayne Davison" at Jan 4, 97 03:34:40 pm
Wayne Davison wrote:
>Unfortunately this changes the way searching works in some cases.
>For instance, if you type an 's' and then use history-search-backward
>it will find a command that starts with the letter 's' (as before).
>However, if you type the command again it searches for a command
>that matches the current command instead of continuing to look for
>commands that start with the letter 's'. The only time the new
>behavior matches the old is when the initial search is for a full
>word (i.e. it was terminated by a space).
That's odd. It looks like history-search-{for,back}ward only behaved
as documented if the word ended in a space, otherwise acting like
history-beginning-search-{for,back}ward. Wouldn't it be better to make
them actually behave as documented -- only look for complete words
matching the current one?
-zefram
prev parent reply other threads:[~1997-01-04 23:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-01-04 19:51 Zefram
1997-01-04 23:34 ` Wayne Davison
1997-01-04 23:47 ` Zefram [this message]
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