Re: [Nano-devel] ^W and ^\ behaves differently on BACKWARDS_SEARCH

[Benno Schulenberg]

Op 12-04-18 om 13:38 schreef Liu Hao:
> I have noticed that now ^W always starts a forward search by calling the
> `do_search_forward()` function in 'src/search.c', which clears the
> `BACKWARDS_SEARCH` flag. This is, however, not the case on ^\, which
> honors the current status of this flag, which could be altered
> accidentally by ^Q or M-Up. Sometimes I get confused by the
> 'out-of-thin-air' backwards replacing flag.
>
> I think the behavior of these function should match in this case,

Hmmm...  But we don't have a key to start a backwards replacing session.
And it is kind of strange that the Case-Sensitive and Regular-Expression
flags are persistent but the Backwards flag is volatile...

But I agree: it should be easily predictable in what direction a replacing
session will go.  The ^W, ^Q, Alt-Up and Alt-Down keystrokes set the
backwards flag as a kind of "side effect" -- the user does not toggle the
flag herself -- so it's somewhat hard to know/remember for which direction
the flag is set.  So... I've applied and pushed your patch: bb394990.

Thanks for the patch.

Benno

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