> From: Benno Schulenberg <[email protected]> > Cc: Gavin Smith <[email protected]>, Texinfo <[email protected]> > Date: Sun, 21 May 2017 20:03:03 +0200 > > But I still don't understand why > M-n starts a search -- it only /repeats/ a search in > both vim and less. The thing is: if M-n hadn't been > bound to search in vi mode, it could have been bound > to next-node instead, which makes for a single keystroke > instead of the double ^xn. M-u and M-p are still free > for up-node and prev-node. Those bindings would have > made more mnemonic sense, when seen next to M-b, M-e, > M-f, M-g, M-t, and M-d.
Could be because Less didn't have some of these bindings back then. Or maybe I just stopped adding bindings at some point. Feel free to improve on what I did. For many years I thought no one cared (although I did this at someone's explicit request).
