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| author | Russ Cox <rsc@golang.org> | 2024-06-15 10:55:21 -0400 |
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| committer | Russ Cox <rsc@golang.org> | 2024-06-15 10:57:45 -0400 |
| commit | 0c79c32675e83ff3d87d5bf52082652d85486a45 (patch) | |
| tree | 8b7042e878874a1ed870f26571b7a2383be231f1 /man/man1/acme.1 | |
| parent | 60ca2be037f739e30daba1dc5b66a166fcdc0bf2 (diff) | |
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acme: shift button 3 for reverse search
An experiment. Let's see if it's any good.
Also document the Mac conventions in devdraw(3).
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1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/man/man1/acme.1 b/man/man1/acme.1 index 852a8f7f..bb2c89d6 100644 --- a/man/man1/acme.1 +++ b/man/man1/acme.1 @@ -588,6 +588,9 @@ not just or .BR 127 . (There is an easier way to locate literal text; see below.) +If shift is held down during the selection or click, +any leading regular expression search defaults to +searching backward in the text instead of forward. .PP If the text is a file name followed by a colon and an address, .I acme @@ -608,6 +611,8 @@ moved there. Thus, to search for occurrences of a word in a file, just click button 3 on the word. Because of the rule of using the selection as the button 3 action, subsequent clicks will find subsequent occurrences without moving the mouse. +If shift is held down during the selection or click, +the search looks backward in the file. .PP In all these actions, the mouse motion is not done if the text is a null string within a non-null selected string in the tag, so that (for example) complex regular expressions |