Re: Backward search in the internal viewer

[Pavel Roskin <proski gnu org>]

On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, Andrew V. Samoilov wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> this feature is documented, but I don't know was this one implemented 
> before 4.1.  I implemented it for normal and hex search in 2000,
> but it was rejected because it had not regular search.
> 
> I have no ideas how to implement this search for ^[a-b], ^[^c-G\]\] and 
> ^(bif|foo)? cases without much efforts.

I didn't realize at that time that regex search backwards is hard.  
Please resend your patch or just apply it if you are certain that it's OK.
I remember it also included case sensitive support.  That would be really
great.  New users are not supposed to know if the search in the viewer is
case sensitive or not.

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Regards,
Pavel Roskin