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Re: zsh, vi mode, vihistorysearchbackward
- X-seq: zsh-workers 1366
- From: schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Barton E. Schaefer)
- To: Zefram <A.Main@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, jdl@xxxxxxxxxxxx (J.D. Laub), zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Subject: Re: zsh, vi mode, vihistorysearchbackward
- Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1996 11:58:07 -0700
- In-reply-to: Zefram <A.Main@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> "Re: zsh, vi mode, vihistorysearchbackward" (Jun 19, 6:04pm)
- References: <27400.199606191704@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Reply-to: schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
On Jun 19, 6:04pm, Zefram wrote:
} Subject: Re: zsh, vi mode, vihistorysearchbackward
}
} >I can see how "/" should seem to be "search forward" and "?" should be
} >"search backward", but this works exactly opposite as it did before.
}
} We are trying to emulate vi, rather than ksh. As a vi user, I find the
} new bindings much more intuitive -- ? is a backward search, so that's
} what I use to search backward through the history.
In point of fact, I never in memory have *ever* wanted to search forward
through the history. (If I had my druthers, *any* search other than an
immediate repeat of the previous search would always start at the current
command (the end of the history) and go backwards; treating the history
as if it were a file being edited makes no sense to me at all.) I think
the ksh behavior is more intuitive, because I don't think of history as
existing in more than one direction; so having two commands to search it
is confusing enough to begin with.
Further, it's really confusing to have ESC-/ fail to find something that
you know you typed only moments before. If `/' isn't going to search
backwards, then it at least ought to wrap around (like "wrapscan" in vi).
I don't use vi mode, so I haven't bothered complaining about it before.
} If you really want to have the default state match ksh, give everyone a
} .zshrc including these bindings.
Is there a way to tell from within the shell that it was invoked as ksh?
Perhaps an /etc/zshenv like this:
if [[ -o interactive && $0 = *ksh ]]
then
bindkey -a / vi-history-search-backward
bindkey -a \? vi-history-search-forward
fi
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