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Date:Mon Mar 8 10:05:51 1995 
Subject:Re: ved search and replace in poplog v14.5 (PS) 
From:James Goodlet 
Volume-ID:950308.02 

> In situations when you don't know whether the thing you are looking for
> is above or below your current location in the editor buffer, why do you
> ever search backwards? I would have thought that having the forward
> search was all you need in that context?

wrapping to the start of the file during a forward search, realising
that you want to do something at the previous location, and not being
able to use backward search to get back to it.  of course one can go to
the end of the file, and then search backwards, but quite apart from
that being a longer keystroke sequence than backward search, it is a
different action to that which one would apply at any other search
location during forward search.

i can see your reasoning aaron, but this asymmetry has always annoyed me
as well, so i'm with adrian on this one.

james