From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#3746: M-r in comint mode should use isearch Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 02:05:16 +0300 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <878wixmp8z.fsf@mail.jurta.org> References: <200907031326.n63DQfPA027629@godzilla.ics.uci.edu> <87zlblpajc.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <200907051503.n65F3fDv003169@godzilla.ics.uci.edu> <87ab3hxprg.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <200907070121.n671LmLt029754@godzilla.ics.uci.edu> <87skh8ynnm.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <30EDDB5AC92A422E87D113B0A49C500E@us.oracle.com> <87zlbf1kr0.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <84007A40B39D4D1F97E2E01F3B07B59F@us.oracle.com> <871voppknf.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <0EB1F58839DE4C8EACBEF3867C69B80C@us.oracle.com> Reply-To: Juri Linkov , 3746@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1247181469 13269 80.91.229.12 (9 Jul 2009 23:17:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2009 23:17:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 3746@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com, 'Dan Nicolaescu' To: "Drew Adams" Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 10 01:17:41 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MP2s1-0002f6-1B for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Jul 2009 01:17:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45776 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MP2rz-0007uZ-Us for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Jul 2009 19:17:39 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MP2ru-0007u7-UG for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Jul 2009 19:17:34 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MP2rp-0007td-UQ for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Jul 2009 19:17:34 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=55876 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MP2rp-0007tZ-M5 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Jul 2009 19:17:29 -0400 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu ([138.23.92.77]:59301) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MP2rp-0006aA-7I for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Jul 2009 19:17:29 -0400 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu (rzlab.ucr.edu [127.0.0.1]) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5) with ESMTP id n69NHQDN004425; Thu, 9 Jul 2009 16:17:27 -0700 Original-Received: (from debbugs@localhost) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id n69NF4YE003809; Thu, 9 Jul 2009 16:15:04 -0700 X-Loop: owner@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com Resent-From: Juri Linkov Resent-To: bug-submit-list@donarmstrong.com Resent-CC: Emacs Bugs Resent-Date: Thu, 09 Jul 2009 23:15:04 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: owner@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com X-Emacs-PR-Message: followup 3746 X-Emacs-PR-Package: emacs X-Emacs-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 3746-submit@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com id=B3746.12471810083086 (code B ref 3746); Thu, 09 Jul 2009 23:15:04 +0000 Original-Received: (at 3746) by emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com; 9 Jul 2009 23:10:08 +0000 X-Spam-Bayes: score:0.5 Bayes not run. spammytokens:Tokens not available. hammytokens:Tokens not available. Original-Received: from mx2.starman.ee (smtp-out2.starman.ee [85.253.0.4]) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5) with ESMTP id n69NA3AD003007 for <3746@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com>; Thu, 9 Jul 2009 16:10:04 -0700 X-Virus-Scanned: by Amavisd-New at mx2.starman.ee Original-Received: from mail.starman.ee (82.131.30.18.cable.starman.ee [82.131.30.18]) by mx2.starman.ee (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD9D53F40DD; Fri, 10 Jul 2009 02:09:57 +0300 (EEST) In-Reply-To: <0EB1F58839DE4C8EACBEF3867C69B80C@us.oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Thu, 9 Jul 2009 15:32:24 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) Resent-Date: Thu, 09 Jul 2009 19:17:34 -0400 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:29286 Archived-At: >> Generally, using C-u to modify behavior is a good thing but >> not for C-r since its C-u argument runs a regular expression >> search instead. > > Hm, I wonder why. ;-) > > I wonder why they didn't choose to have the search behavior > (regexp vs plain) depend intelligently on the context > (where the cursor is, what phase the moon is in,...). > `C-u' seems so, well, primitive - actually leaving it up > to the user to indicate explicitly what s?he means! > Surely there is some smart way to second-guess the user > in that case also. ;-) If we are going to go down this road, soon we will have only one command: M-x dwim RET ;-) -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/