Interactive search / direction reversal (auto)

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From: Stephan Bechtolsheim
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1991 23:01

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I would like to have interactive search-forward or
backward to behave in such a way, that in case 
I started search-forward and no match is found, a
search-backward is immediately started or vice
versa.

Did anyone do something like that? Sometimes I look
for something in a file, and I am at position a, looking
for b, and I don't really know whether b preceds a or not.

Thanks.

Stephan Bechtolsheim
Purdue, CS Department

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Subject: Interactive search / direction reversal (auto)
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