Re: [Bug-readline] make ';' after 't' work in vi-mode

[Chet Ramey]

On 9/27/18 12:15 PM, Richard Todd wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 11:08:19AM -0400, Chet Ramey wrote:
>> On 9/26/18 4:36 PM, Richard Todd wrote:
>>> I noticed in vi-mode, if you search with 't'/'T', then readline
>>> gets stuck on ';' (because the next letter already matches).  So,
>>> from the start of this paragraph, I would expect 'te;' to take me
>>> to the 'd' in the word "vi-mode", rut readline gets stuck on the
>>> 'c' in "noticed" instead.
>>
>> Thanks for the report. It seems to me that readline implements what the
>> POSIX standard wants for t/T, but I'll take a closer look.
> 
> Now that you've said that, I realize that the behavior I am after is actually 
> a
> vim enhancement.  When I turn on vi-compatibility mode, the cursor gets stuck
> when trying to repeat a t/T search just as it does in readline.  I should have
> checked that before I posted the report--I guess I've been running vim too 
> many
> years!

I wonder if an `extended-vi' option is the way to handle this.

Chet
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