As far as I can see, the ^n (and ^g) keys don't do anything. I've looked at this before and could not understand what they would be expected to do given the way incremental searching works. I thought that maybe it makes sense to Midnight Commander users.
That would be because you remapped them. What I find when I do that is that they can still be typed as part of the search string, but they do not implement the UP and DOWN functions. If they did, how would you then enter them as search characters?
Obviously you're trying to do something I'm not grasping.
I was trying to implement Vim keybindings for moving the cursor. So I replaced DOWN by j and UP by k.
Here is my keymap file: https://gist.github.com/AzizLight/6808146
EDIT:
I managed to fix the problem of moving the cursor to select search results. But I can't use j/k in the search. I even tried to use the default keymap, but that didn't fix the problem..
Well, exactly. The problem here is that vi editors are modal and MOC (in this case) isn't (really). You just can't have it both ways; you can't allow character keys to enter characters and move the cursor up and down the currently selected files. The only way it can work is if non-character keys are used for cursor movement, and this is what the default key bindings do.
jcf
Wed, 2013-10-02 20:51
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Let's Hear It For No-Ops
As far as I can see, the
^n(and^g) keys don't do anything. I've looked at this before and could not understand what they would be expected to do given the way incremental searching works. I thought that maybe it makes sense to Midnight Commander users.AzizLight
Thu, 2013-10-03 07:09
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Ok. So, let's say I am
Ok. So, let's say I am searching a term, and there is multiple results. How can I go through the results? For example, how can I play the 4th result?
Right now I can only play the first search result, or I need to refine my search.
Also, I noticed something else:
I remapped "DOWN" to "j" and "UP" to "k". Now I can't type either j or k in the search..
jcf
Thu, 2013-10-03 08:21
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What Am I Missing Here?
The up and down arrows work for me.
That would be because you remapped them. What I find when I do that is that they can still be typed as part of the search string, but they do not implement the UP and DOWN functions. If they did, how would you then enter them as search characters?
Obviously you're trying to do something I'm not grasping.
AzizLight
Thu, 2013-10-03 11:27
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I was trying to implement Vim
I was trying to implement Vim keybindings for moving the cursor. So I replaced DOWN by j and UP by k.
Here is my keymap file: https://gist.github.com/AzizLight/6808146
EDIT:
I managed to fix the problem of moving the cursor to select search results. But I can't use j/k in the search. I even tried to use the default keymap, but that didn't fix the problem..
jcf
Thu, 2013-10-03 21:02
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It's All In The Mode
Well, exactly. The problem here is that vi editors are modal and MOC (in this case) isn't (really). You just can't have it both ways; you can't allow character keys to enter characters and move the cursor up and down the currently selected files. The only way it can work is if non-character keys are used for cursor movement, and this is what the default key bindings do.