Re: history-search-backward loses undo

[Andreas Schwab]

Chet Ramey <chet@nike.ins.cwru.edu> writes:

|> It's probable that the new line found with history-search-backward has no
|> undo list associated with it.  When a non-incremental search succeeds, the
|> undo list associated with that line is made the current undo list.  It's
|> likely that the old undo list is no longer valid; it would be confusing
|> to retain it.

I would expect to be able to undo what history-search-backward changed and
go back further the old undo list.  Unlike reverse-search-history which
puts you on a different history line, history-search-backward changes the
line in place.

Andreas.

-- 
Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de
SuSE Linux AG, Deutschherrnstr. 15-19, D-90429 Nürnberg
Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756  01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5
"And now for something completely different."