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Re: PATCH: muddled completion search status

>>>>> On June 16, 2015 Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Unless I misunderstand you, repeating a search in emacs searches again
> for the last-searched-for string no matter which direction the new
> search is going.  The same is true for vi's "n" or "N" command for
> searching again up/downward.  Why do you think it's wrong to restore
> the last search string?  I would prefer not to break similarity (I won't
> go so far as to say "compatibility") with emacs in this regard.

If I understand, he's actually making it more emacs-compatible.

Emacs only restores your last search when you hit the same direction
search keys twice in a row; if you hit C-s C-r is does not restore the
last search, it merely switches direction.

Greg
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