Re: Make reverse-i-search failure joltingly clear

2023-12-12 Thread Dan Jacobson
Well these days the chances of bells, visual or audible, getting through are less and less, e.g., https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/issues/1528 and on chromebook one must turn the bell on, etc. So I still think something different should happen than each forlorn character just mounting up on

Re: Make reverse-i-search failure joltingly clear

2023-12-11 Thread Chet Ramey
On 12/11/23 2:09 AM, Dan Jacobson wrote: Type ^R and some string, At the point while we are typing that the search fails, all that happens is the word "failed" gets added at front, No, readline rings the bell as well. If you want it to use a visible bell instead, change the value of the readlin

Re: Make reverse-i-search failure joltingly clear

2023-12-10 Thread Dennis Williamson
On Mon, Dec 11, 2023 at 1:09 AM Dan Jacobson wrote: > Type ^R and some string, > At the point while we are typing that the search fails, all that > happens is the word "failed" gets added at front, > > (reverse-i-search)`nni': set > jida^Ci.org/geo/house_numbering/grids/us/il/lake/lake_county/ >

Re: Make reverse-i-search failure joltingly clear

2023-12-10 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2023-12-11T15:09:26+0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: > Type ^R and some string, > At the point while we are typing that the search fails, all that > happens is the word "failed" gets added at front, Not for me. I also get a visual bell for each character I add to the pattern once the match fails. Yo