Re: history-search-backward doesn't work with operate-and-get-next(C-o)

[Chet Ramey]

On 9/8/21 4:25 PM, Vandrus Zoltán wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I usually run two commands in bash after each other:
>   xgamma ..
>   xbacklight ..
> 
> I bound C-<up> to history-search-backward, so typing 'xg C-<up>' recalls
> xgamma in history. Then I would expexct C-o to run xgamma and recall the
> xbacklight command. But it doesn't happen.
> It works, with the default bound incremental backward search, 'C-r xg' though.

Thanks for the report.

Non-incremental searches leave the current history position set to the line
being edited, rather than the offset of the last found matching line, as
incremental searches do. I'll look at the implications of making non-
incremental searches match incremental ones here.

Chet
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