Re: Bash-5.2-alpha available

[Chet Ramey]

On 2/16/22 4:42 AM, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> On Feb 10 2022, Chet Ramey wrote:
>
> > On 2/10/22 9:53 AM, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> > > On Jan 21 2022, Chet Ramey wrote:
> > >
> > > > i. The non-incremental history searches now leave the current history offset
> > > >      at the position of the last matching history entry, like incremental 
> > > > search.
> > > That makes history-search-backward significantly less useful, because
> > > you can no longer use yank-last-arg to copy arguments from the preceding
> > > line.
> >
> > It makes previous-history, next-history, and operate-and-get-next work as
> > they do with incremental searches, which is more in line with user
> > expectations.
>
> But it clobbers the matched history line, replacing it with the
> uncompleted input.

Thanks for the report. This is a different issue; some assumptions that the
change to history-search-{forward,backward} uncovered.

Chet

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