Re: searching backwards

Rob Runkel <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.pine.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
   "Thank you" to everyone who responded to my query.  Seems that the
ability to search backwards hasn't been implemented.  I think it would
be a useful addition.  In my case, I'm often looking for the "last word"
on a particular subject, and searching backward would get me there the
fastest.  (searching forward gets me to the first email on a given
subject -- if i continue to search forward I do eventually get to the
last match -- but since I don't know it is the last one, I search forward
again, wrapping back to the first match.  So I have to continue the
process and remember to stop at the right time.  quite frustrating if
you deal w/ a lot of email).

Cheers, Rob


On Thu, 17 May 2007, David Morris wrote:

>
> I have not clue as to whether it is a configuration or default behavior,
> but for me, using a local mail store, 'w' wraps to the beginning. Not
> quite the same as backward searching, but more what I usually want.
>
> On Thu, 17 May 2007, Rob Runkel wrote:
>
>>
>>    From my mail folder index, I can search forward for text in the
>> author & subject lines using 'w'.  Is there a way to search backward?
>> (i.e from the currently highlighted message in the index, back in time).
>

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