Path: utzoo!telly!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!neat.ai.toronto.edu!lamy From: lamy@ai.utoronto.ca (Jean-Francois Lamy) Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug Subject: Re: reverse i-search Message-ID: <89Jul3.124133edt.10369@neat.ai.toronto.edu> Date: 3 Jul 89 16:41:18 GMT References: <89Jul2.215402edt.10369@neat.ai.toronto.edu> Lines: 18 I think I should just type my postings in English (re-reading them left me with no hope of pleading I had been misunderstood -- what gibberish :-). a) I think that ^W,^@ and ^Y should be as in tcsh, i.e. that emacs users would like that better than the traditional unix bindings. It's the "I have only one brain" idea. b) While I like the idea of a true ^R better than tcsh's approximation, I think that bash'es behaviour of leaving the current line in the prompt and ignoring it is counter-intuitive. When a reverse i-search in emacs shows "foo" in the prompt, and you type "bar", you expect it to search for "foobar", not "bar". So one of two things: either make bash search for "foo" when you type ^R after typing "foo" (which resembles) tcsh, or clear the prompt. In any case, make the prompt match what is being searched for. Jean-Francois Lamy lamy@ai.utoronto.ca, uunet!ai.utoronto.ca!lamy AI Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Canada M5S 1A4