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Re: history-search-backward



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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