On Wednesday, November 14, 2012 12:28:16 AM UTC-6, Christian Brabandt wrote: > On Tue, November 13, 2012 22:08, Andy Wokula wrote: > > > Am 22.10.2012 17:12, schrieb Benjamin Fritz: > > >> The help for gn and gN says that gn searches "forward...like with n" > > >> and that gN "searches backward, like with N". But when you do a > > >> backward search with ? instead of /, n moves the cursor backwards, and > > >> N moves it forwards. gn and gN do not behave accordingly, they > > >> continue to move forward with gn and backwards with gN. I think the > > >> behavior would be more intuitive if it accounted for the search > > >> direction like n and N, but at the very least, a documentation update > > >> is needed. > > > > I really hope, this is not going to be "fixed". The behaviour of > > n/N depending on the inital search direction is one of my greatest > > annoyances of Vim. > >
Regardless, the inconsistency is confusing. At least the documentation should reflect this difference. -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
