Re: [Nano-devel] search history

[Chris Allegretta]

On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 05:06:32PM +1000, Ken Tyler wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, Chris Allegretta wrote:
> 
> > Hmm, I looked again and didn't find the patch.  Was this when the
> > list was down?
> 
> I think it the lists was backup, it's in my sent mail FWIW. 
> 
> Attached are the diffs and what I've changed and what's still to be done.
> 
> The patch contains the fix for ngettext with glibc < 2.2 and the fix to
> stop nano freezing on a bad regexp in .nonorc.  Both were posted here.
> 
> Not yet updated the prompt to be like you suggest or made history
> available in pico, doing the pico part needs careful work around
> search_init()'s statusq call, but have a play and see what you think.
> 
> Ken.

Okay, well I was hoping to have more time to do something with your 
patch, but I really like what I see.  I was able to make it cycle back 
through when reaching the end or beginnig of the history list, which 
could well be all the functionality we need.  I like how unobtrusive it 
is.  The question becomes whether to implement what I proposed in my 
earlier mail (and well in the past).  I guess the question comes down to 
whether people who use the current non-pico search behavior want to hit 
<down arrow> two times to start with a blank line.  Hmm.

Chris A
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