Must one really Control-x n?
I'm a vi person; one thing's really bothered me about GNU info docs.
To search for text, / works (just like vi).
To search for the next occurrence of the thing I just typed in, I'm used to typing n , but that drops me into the next section of an info doc. (In vi, that would search for the next occurrence of what I just typed. Then, I get lost and have to start over, and usually angrily bail out of info docs.)
How does one search for the next occurrence of text?
Please, no meta-key stuff, my Sun keyboard is not hooked to my Windows box that ssh's into the linux host I'm trying to do this on. There must me a single-keypress that does this.
I just spent another 10 minutes patiently reading through info, where it's trying to teach me all the dozens of keypresses of info but I don't want to remember them because I like vi and all I really want to do is find one keypress to search for the next occurrence of what I just searched for.
Then I Googled, and found:
(what does right-tilde-bracket mean, is that like PC load letter?)
C-x n (search-next)
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n, vi-like operation
Search for the same string used in the last search command, in the same direction, and with the same case-sensitivity option. With a numeric argument of n, search for nth next occurrence.
By default, the search starts at the position immediately following the cursor. However, if the variable search-skip-screen (see search-skip-screen) is set, it starts at the beginning of the next page, thereby skipping all visibly displayed lines (but not any further lines in the current node).
I'm a vi person; one thing's really bothered me about GNU info docs.
To search for text, / works (just like vi).
To search for the next occurrence of the thing I just typed in, I'm used to typing n , but that drops me into the next section of an info doc. (In vi, that would search for the next occurrence of what I just typed. Then, I get lost and have to start over, and usually angrily bail out of info docs.)
How does one search for the next occurrence of text?
Please, no meta-key stuff, my Sun keyboard is not hooked to my Windows box that ssh's into the linux host I'm trying to do this on. There must me a single-keypress that does this.
I just spent another 10 minutes patiently reading through info, where it's trying to teach me all the dozens of keypresses of info but I don't want to remember them because I like vi and all I really want to do is find one keypress to search for the next occurrence of what I just searched for.
Then I Googled, and found:
(what does right-tilde-bracket mean, is that like PC load letter?)
C-x n (search-next)
}
n, vi-like operation
Search for the same string used in the last search command, in the same direction, and with the same case-sensitivity option. With a numeric argument of n, search for nth next occurrence.
By default, the search starts at the position immediately following the cursor. However, if the variable search-skip-screen (see search-skip-screen) is set, it starts at the beginning of the next page, thereby skipping all visibly displayed lines (but not any further lines in the current node).
