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Re: zsh, vi mode, vihistorysearchbackward

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From: Vinnie Shelton <shelton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Richard Coleman <coleman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: zsh, vi mode, vihistorysearchbackward
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1996 20:10:00 -0400
Cc: zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: coleman's message of Wed, 19 Jun 1996 18:47:12 -0400. <199606192247.SAA03664@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-to: acs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

coleman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx said:
> I think the interpretation should be that "/" searches the `natural' 
> direction (whatever that is) and "?" searches the reverse of that. 
> With that interpretation, the previous behavoir is more natural.  As 
> Bart said, you rarely ever want to search forward (down) the history. 
> The `natural' direction is always to search up the history. 

I much prefer this interpretation.  I'd like to see '/' restored as the 
natural search character in vi mode.

--vin

References:
- Re: zsh, vi mode, vihistorysearchbackward
  - From: Richard Coleman

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