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Re: lynx-dev 'N' for backwards 'n' like "less"?
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David Combs |
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Re: lynx-dev 'N' for backwards 'n' like "less"? |
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Tue, 23 Mar 1999 05:48:15 -0800 |
On Tue, Mar 23, 1999 at 02:46:33AM -0500, Philip Webb wrote:
> 990323 John Bley wrote:
> > Has there been any discussion previously
> > about 'N' being mapped to a backwards-search (just like "less")?
> > If not, what are your opinions about it being a worthwhile feature?
>
> there have been intermittent requests for a backwards search:
> the reason it hasn't happened is the perennial one:
> no-one with the need has also had the skill + time .
> please do it for everyone: there should be no problem about using N .
What's wrong with "?", like vi?
Or, maybe crazy, "\", which is what Kernighan & Plauer used in
their "Software Tools" book, symmetric to "/".
Or, "-/" (minus slash).
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Or "rev/", FINALLY doing the right thing, allowing commands
to have more than one char!
- lynx-dev 'N' for backwards 'n' like "less"?, John Bley, 1999/03/23
- Re: lynx-dev 'N' for backwards 'n' like "less"?, dickey, 1999/03/23
- Re: lynx-dev 'N' for backwards 'n' like "less"?, Henry Nelson, 1999/03/24
- Re: lynx-dev 'N' for backwards 'n' like "less"?, Webmaster Jim, 1999/03/24
- Re: lynx-dev 'N' for backwards 'n' like "less"?, John Bley, 1999/03/24
- Re: lynx-dev lynx-dev 'N' for backwards 'n' like "less"?, Kim DeVaughn, 1999/03/24
- Re: lynx-dev 'N' for backwards 'n' like "less"?, David Combs, 1999/03/24
- Re: lynx-dev 'N' for backwards 'n' like "less"?, Chuck Martin, 1999/03/25
- Re: lynx-dev 'N' for backwards 'n' like "less"?, Doug Kaufman, 1999/03/25