Mark Jamsek:

> I think the search prompt is a bit different to the count prefix; at
> least it behaves differently in vi(1) (i.e., the search term is
> echoed and has no timeout but the count prefix doesn't echo and does
> have a timeout),

I was going to say that I had never known until now that the count
prefix had a timeout in vi(1)... but I just tried it and there is
no timeout.

> Without the timeout, you need to either follow through with a keymap or
> enter some non-numeric, non-valid keymap to cancel a partial count.

And that is fine.

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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de