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commit d865d7ac8ff15b4de4d1f1682def0978b57d68fa
parent 16d237ba1bfeb3ea5511966c3d345594f982249e
Author: Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@telfort.nl>
Date:   Mon,  5 Feb 2018 12:35:53 +0100

search: clear the existing answer when starting a new search

When doing for example: ^W xx ^R ^C ^W, the "xx" would again be shown
after the prompt.  This is wrong -- when starting a new search, the
current answer should be empty.

Reported-by: Marco Diego Aurélio Mesquita <marcodiegomesquita@gmail.com>

Diffstat:
M
src/search.c
 | 
3
+--

1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/search.c b/src/search.c
@@ -99,8 +99,7 @@ void search_init(bool replacing, bool keep_the_answer)
 	static char *sofar = NULL;
 		/* What the user has typed so far, before toggling something. */
 
-	if (keep_the_answer)
-		sofar = mallocstrcpy(sofar, answer);
+	sofar = mallocstrcpy(sofar, keep_the_answer ? answer : "");
 
 	/* If something was searched for earlier, include it in the prompt. */
 	if (*last_search != '\0') {