Re: Bug in internal viewer in mc 4.7.1

["Joe(theWordy)Philbrook" <jtwdyp ttlc net>]

It would appear that on Mar 9, Theodore Kilgore did say:

> On Sat, 6 Mar 2010, Reynir Stefansson wrote:
> Indeed. For that matter, why would I want to continue a search after finding
> one or more occurrences of the search string, and then have it automatically
> loop back to the top of the file and find the first occurrence a second time?
> I would find it more logical, understandable, and actually useful if search
> would start at the top of the file, progress downward as the search for the
> same string is repeated, and quit when it reaches the bottom of the file. It
> appears to me from several recent uses that it is in fact looping around to
> the top of the file, which is a bit strange.

I Lets see if I understand you Theodore; At the moment I'm logged into my
Elive distro which still has mc 4.6.2-pre1, so I can't check how much of
this behavior has changed... In 4.6.2-pre1, doing a search from the
internal file viewer always seems to start at the top of the document.

Which is one of the reasons I usually use "less" instead of the internal
viewer...

But since it would only make sense for mc 4.7.1 to ask this at all if it now starts
the search from something like the top of the current screenful of the displayed
file??? And thus the complaint was merely that it doesn't notice when the said first
displayed line was in fact also the very first line in the file, and that mc should
in that case, remember not to ask? In which case it seems like a small thing to me...

Or do you mean that even if you were half way through viewing a large file and noticed
that some interesting phrase or word that appeared a gazillion times in the first
half of the file hasn't been mentioned for several screen fulls And want to
know if it occurs AGAIN.  You would find it more useful to HAVE to search from
the top, and try to keep track of when you run out of matching expressions from
parts of the file you've already looked at??? 
 
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