[sup-talk] new in svn: in-buffer search

[vasudeva]

* on 11-07-07, Marcus Williams wrote:
> On 6.11.2007, William Morgan wrote:
> > First, note that I've remapped the index search from '/' to '\'. Hah!
> > 
> > '/' now does an in-buffer search, highlights the results, and jumps to
> > the first one. 'n' jumps to the next result; ^G or any other key cancels
> > the current search.
> 
> This feels a bit wrong to me (might just be me though). I'd say that
> searching for emails is the most used case for a search option in sup
> so should have the '/', and searching in buffer should be something
> different.
> 
> Better than that, make '/' mode dependant so you can use say ctrl-s to
> search for emails (always), ctrl-f to search in buffer (always) but
> map '/' to ctrl-s in thread-index mode (so that would be in inbox and
> search results). In all other modes '/' could map to ctrl-f.

For purposes of migration from existing tools, and conforming to
established UNIX conventions, I like keeping / as buffer search (per
the 'screen search' CLI norm) and \ as ferret-index search (somewhat
unusual functionality in terms of CLI app search conventions, thus
deserving of a lower-priority keybinding). 

That said, I think mode-dependency could be a neat resolve. 



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