Re: Question about _history-complete-older

[Bernhard Tittelbach <xro@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2012-01-27 08:51, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> On Jan 26,  8:10pm, Bernhard Tittelbach wrote:
> }
> } In my zsh version 4.3.11, _history-complete-newer  completes a word from
> } the history, beginning with the oldest words in the history,
> } while _history-complete-older completes a word from history starting
> } with the most recent entries.
> 
> That's because they wrap around if they don't find anything.  So if
> you do "newer" starting from the end, it will immediately find nothing
> and then wrap to the beginning and start from there; similarly "older" 
> from the end (most recent) will work backward from there.
> 
> Thus "newer" and "older" are relative to the entry on which you start
> searching, not relative to each other; they refer to the direction of
> the search, not to the recency of the entries they find.


Thanks for clarifying :)

regards,
Bernhard