Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Re: Path easy-search

On 04/06/2011 11:34 AM, Christian Brabandt wrote:
> *g*, when searching backwards, I always get confused, whether
> to use n/N for my desired direction. Is 'n' keeping the
> direction or searching forward? And if 'N' reverses the
> direction and ? also reverses the direction this reverses
> twice? That is too confusing for me...

while it took me a while to figure it out (and remember it), it
still doesn't feel totally natural to think that "n" means "keep
searching in the same direction as my last search, whatever that
was", so unless I've JUST done a backwards "?" search, I find it
a bit cumbersome and side with you. Though sometimes setting
'nowrapscan' helps me keep them straight because I can then tell
when I hit the top/bottom of the file.

-tim


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