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bug #55617: [Request] allow setting whether backwards searching is persistent

Submitter:  Heshy Roskes <heshyr>
Submitted:  Thu 31 Jan 2019 03:11:35 PM UTC
   
 
Severity:  1 - Wish Status:  Wont Fix
Assigned to:  None Open/Closed:  Closed

Sun 10 Mar 2019 08:58:58 AM UTC, comment #2: 

Closing due to lack of response.

Benno Schulenberg <bens>
Group administrator
Thu 31 Jan 2019 04:45:28 PM UTC, comment #1: 

Which versions of nano are you using, and on which platforms?

For your sanity, it would be best to use the same version of nano on all your computers.  Can you compile nano yourself on those machines?

Adding a setting in nanorc to make the M-B toggle persistent for ^W is not really possible.  When ^Q was added (in version 2.9.0) to start a backwards search, ^W was changed to always start a forward search.  In the process the search function that starts a search without affecting the M-B toggle became unbindable.  What we could do is make this function bindable again, so that you can bind ^W to this "persistent-direction search" in your newer nanos.

(But by the time this new bindable function becomes available on your newer platforms, your older platforms might have migrated to a nano where ^W is always forward.  :| )

Benno Schulenberg <bens>
Group administrator
Thu 31 Jan 2019 03:11:35 PM UTC, original submission:  

I use nano on several different computers. On some of them, when I search and press M-B to search backwards, the setting persists until I turn it off. On others, it only applies to that search.  I believe this is due to different nano versions on the different machines

This is really confusing when I go back and forth between the different computers.  Could it be made possible to toggle this setting in the nanorc?

This could also be done for regex and case sensitive searching.

Heshy Roskes <heshyr>

 

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    Date Changed by Updated Field Previous Value => Replaced by
    2019-03-10 bens StatusNone Wont Fix
        Open/ClosedOpen Closed
    2019-01-31 bens Severity3 - Normal 1 - Wish
        Summary[Request] Allow toggling whether backwards searching is persistent [Request] allow setting whether backwards searching is persistent

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