On 2013-02-18, Christian Brabandt wrote: > Bram, > one of my annoyances with vim currently is, that when using n/N for > searching the direction depends on the previous search command. But I > usually forget if I initially used / or ? and then my brain gets stuck > whether I need to press n to search backwards or N. (e.g. I start a > search backwards using '?' and want to go further upwards and press > routinely 'N', but this moves back downwards again). > > I find it easier to know that n searches downwards while N searches > upwards, since I usually only know whether I want to go further down or > up, so I can reliably hit n to go further down and N to go further up to > the next match. > > This is what the attached patch enables, by adding the new flag 'N' to > the 'cpo' setting.
Won't that break any plugins that use 'n' or 'N' after a reverse search? I agree that the proposed behavior would be less confusing than the current behavior, but changing it in any way that would break existing scripts seems like a non-starter. Regards, Gary -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
