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When I am in edit mode in a tmux pane and I do a search, once it reaches the end, it goes back to the beginning. Is there any setting to prevent this?

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do you use / or n to search next result ? – Coren Feb 17 '12 at 11:24
After the first search with /, I use n to get the next results. I tried repeating the search with a combination of / and Enter, but the behaviour doesn't change, once it gets to the end, it comes back to the beginning. – Jacobo de Vera Feb 17 '12 at 12:03

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tmux doesn't have appropriate setting for that, but it's easy to fix it in the source code. I've prepared such patch for you (based on tmux 1.6):

https://gist.github.com/1861273

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Brilliant! It worked perfectly, I appreciate the extra effort in making a patch! Although I suspected the answer would "it can't be done", this is probably the best way to say it :). – Jacobo de Vera Feb 20 '12 at 11:25
Also, you should consider making this depend on a configuration parameter and send it upstream. – Jacobo de Vera Feb 20 '12 at 11:26
In the end I ended up adding the option myself, it will be in 1.7 – Jacobo de Vera Mar 21 '12 at 1:31
@JacobodeVera: Good for you. – przemoc Mar 21 '12 at 6:07

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