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Re: history-search-backward

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From: Zefram <zefram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: pws@xxxxxx (Peter Stephenson)
Subject: Re: history-search-backward
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 12:16:18 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <199701311047.LAA22677@xxxxxxxxxxxx> from "Peter Stephenson" at Jan 31, 97 11:47:08 am

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

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