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up-line-or-search still 'fixed'!



We had the following discussion a couple of months back.  Zefram, can you please comment.

Anthony

On Mon, Feb 09, 1998 at 01:23:55PM +0000, Wez Furlong wrote:
> On Feb 9, 12:57pm, Anthony JR Heading wrote:
> 
> : On Sun, Feb 01, 1998 at 03:41:48PM +0100, Thomas Köhler wrote:
> : > I'd say "no, it's a bug" ;-)
> : > Looking at the manpages, I found this:
> : > 
> : >           up-line-or-search
> : >           Move  up a line in the buffer, or if already at the
> : >           top line, search backward in the history for a line
> : >           beginning with the first word in the buffer.
> : 
> : Wouldn't it be preferable to fix the documentation rather than
> : the code?  I've also used this feature for as long as I can recall,
> : and FWIW the new behaviour I also assumed to be a bug.
> 
> : Seriously, if you have this function bound the cursor keys, this is
> : a major breakage.
> 
> After trying to use the other suggestion, I have to agree - can we fix
> the documentation and adjust the code so that the behaviour is the same
> as 3.0.5? I can't see the way to getting the widget to work for this
> function anyway.

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Anthony J.R. Heading    J.P. Morgan Securities Ltd, London
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