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Re: history-search-backward

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From: Zoltan Hidvegi <hzoli@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: pws@xxxxxx (Peter Stephenson)
Subject: Re: history-search-backward
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 20:02:26 +0100 (MET)
Cc: zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Zsh workers list)
In-reply-to: <199701311242.NAA29501@xxxxxxxxxxxx> from Peter Stephenson at "Jan 31, 97 01:42:47 pm"
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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, while the
> history-search-backward behaviour, partly inherited from tcsh, has
> been around for years and years whether documented or not and I don't
> believe I'm the only one to have been relying on it.  If it confused
> me --- and I'm supposed in principal to be clued up --- I can't
> imagine the general confusion will be any less.

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?

Zoltan

References:
- Re: history-search-backward
  - From: Peter Stephenson

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