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From: Guido van Steen <gvsteen@xxxxxxxxx>
To: zsh-users@xxxxxxxxxx, Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: matlab-history-beginning-search-backward
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2009 16:36:29 -0700 (PDT)
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Thank you Peter, 

I amended the widget slightly. With this version the searched pattern is shown again when you search-forward beyond the first match. As far as I can tell that is how history works in Matlab and Fish. 

Attached for users who also like this behavior. 

Best wishes, 

Guido 

--- On Fri, 10/2/09, Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: matlab-history-beginning-search-backward
> To: zsh-users@xxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Friday, October 2, 2009, 10:48 AM
> Guido van Steen wrote:
> > * Which part of the code makes sure that the commands
> retrieved
> > from history are "shown" on the command line?
> 
> Assigning to HISTNO moves to the given line number in the
> history.  zsh
> remembers edits to history lines until you hit
> <return> on the line you
> actually want to execute; the next time you look at the
> history it's
> back the way it was.
> 
> > * Why does the cursor position matter, and how can one
> make sure
> > that the cursor moves to the right position before the
> widget is
> > invoked?
> 
> As far as the widget is concerned, the cursor position only
> matters at
> the start in order to find the string to the left which is
> used for the
> search.  If you execute the widget again (forward or
> backward) without
> any other command in between it will use the same search
> string (no
> matter where the cursor is).  If you move the cursor
> (or in fact execute
> any other command) and execute the widget again it will
> look again at
> the string to the left.
> 
> Some people like the cursor placed specially after the
> execution of
> history commands; this function doesn't have any support
> for that, so
> it's always left at the end.
> 
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