On 5/31/13 11:52 PM, [email protected] wrote:
> Do this:
> C-r 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ...
>
> You will see on your screen
>
> (reverse-i-search)`1234':
>
> or you will see more or less digits depending on your history.
>
> The point is sooner or later the digits won't reflect what the actual
> current search string is!
>
> There is NO POINT in not showing those digits.
>
> Plus one has to hit Backspace several times until we get back to the
> real digits shown.
>
> You are already ringing the bell. The user gets the message.
Thanks for the suggestion. I will look at implementing this for the next
version of bash. It will likely not be in bash-4.3, which is already in
alpha, but may appear in subsequent development snapshots for testing.
Chet
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