[techtalk] problems with VI

[Nancy Corbett]

When I want to repeat a search, I just hit the n key.

On Fri, 16 Jun 2000, Nicoya Helm wrote:

> Any idea why the following is happening?  When I'm in vi and I do a
> forward search, in the past I've always been able to repeat past
> searches by typing "/" then the up arrow.  However, the other day I
> switched from ksh to zsh. Now when I try to repeat past searches, 
> instead of recalling a previous string, up arrow inserts capital
> A,B,C,D, etc into my document. Talk about annoying!  It didn't start
> doing it till I switched shells, so I thought it might be related. (I
> haven't tried switching back to see if that's it,
> though.)                                   
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> ~~~Nicoya...
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