Dale Scheetz wrote:
>
> On Wed, 8 Jan 1997, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote:
>
> > >>>>> "Hamish" == Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > Hamish> Pressing / and entering the same search just takes you
> > Hamish> back to the first result again. This is counter-intuitive
> > Hamish> for users of vi, less etc. Lynx uses "n" to repeat a
> > Hamish> search but dselect doesn't use that either.
> >
> > I thought the same thing. It should work like 'less' does. And have
> > {C-s} and {C-M-s} incremental searching like Emacsen do as well,
> > perhaps.
> >
> This begins to look like a religeous discussion ;-)
>
> The real question is: "What key does dselect use for repeat searches?"
> rather than "What key should it be?".
>
> I'm not an expert on dselect. I use dpkg almost exclusively to do my
> incremental upgrades. I don't know if there is such a key, or not, but
> it's clear it isn't documented very well if there is one. If there isn't
> the bug is in the software instead of the docs (or including the docs).
> Do we have an expert out there who can answer this question?
>
It is just pure / WITHOUT any pattern. It is exactly the same in "more".
Pawel.
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