Re: What happened to "Search hit BOTTOM, continuing at TOP"?

On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 01:30:06PM +0200, Christian Brabandt wrote:
> On Do, 29 Aug 2019, Marius Gedminas wrote:
>
> > (I like the [N/M] index, but I also think the W is way too subtle, and I
> > find myself looping again and again.)
>
> When the N/M index was first introduced, it did show the error message
> and forced a small delay to make sure it can be read before the N/M
> index would potentially overwrite it. However people complained about
> vim being unresponsive, so it was changed and the 'W' indicator was
> added as a compromise.

Why is overwriting a concern? There should be enough space in a
80-column wide terminal to display

search hit TOP, continuing at BOTTOM [1/3]

with no need for a pause (which would be annoying, it's what Mutt does
after it displays error messages and I feel annoyance every time it does that).

Marius Gedminas
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