Date: Mon, 14 Jul 1997 12:20:22 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: helbig@MX.BA-Stuttgart.De (Wolfgang Helbig) Cc: FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: some forgotten submits Message-ID: <199707140250.MAA06919@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199707120812.KAA08749@helbig.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de> from Wolfgang Helbig at "Jul 12, 97 10:12:27 am"
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Wolfgang Helbig stands accused of saying:
>
> May I ask you to review some of my proposals/fixes? Most of them
> don't seem to be *that* important to the FreeBSD project and thus
> are gathering dust while being ignored by you. But even getting
> *some* feedback like `leave us allone with that crap' is better
> than nothing :-(.
Ok, let's take the one I might have something to do with :
> bin/4064: History search in libedit is broken. E. g. sh(1) uses
> only the first letter of the search string for matching.
I can't reproduce the problem as you describe it in the PR :
Enter the following commands to get a history.
# sh
# set -o vi
# lll
# llll
Now hit the escape key to enter the vi commands, enter
/llll, to search for the last occurence of the string `llll'
in the history. Depending on whatever, the shell will show
you the command `llll', which is correct, or beep at you,
which is wrong. Hit the `N'-key to repeat the search, the
shell might show you `lll', which is wrong, it should beep
at you instead.
Following your instructions I get 'llll' and then a beep, which is, as
you indicate, correct. This is on a 2.2 system.
Do you know if your libedit is pre- or post- the NetBSD-sourced changes?
Regards,
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