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From: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
To: Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>
Cc: 3746@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Subject: bug#3746: M-r in comint mode should use isearch
Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2009 03:09:45 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ab3hxprg.fsf@mail.jurta.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200907051503.n65F3fDv003169@godzilla.ics.uci.edu> (Dan Nicolaescu's message of "Sun, 5 Jul 2009 08:03:41 -0700 (PDT)")

> The problem with that is that C-s (and C-r) already have bindings in
> comint modes, and changing them would not be liked by most users.
> Doing M-r and then C-s/C-r seems a bit cumbersome.
> IMHO just using M-r for incremental history search will provide no
> surprises for the user, and it seems like a natural extension of the
> current behavior.

Currently M-r typed in the shell buffer activates the minibuffer with
the prompt "Previous input matching (regexp): ".  I doubt that users
will like to see Isearch activated instead of this minibuffer.
But maybe we should try using M-s that is less useful in the
shell buffer.

-- 
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/





  reply	other threads:[~2009-07-07  0:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <87ocmknicw.fsf@mail.jurta.org>
2009-07-03 13:26 ` bug#3746: M-r in comint mode should use isearch Dan Nicolaescu
2009-07-03 23:36   ` Juri Linkov
2009-07-05 15:03     ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-07-07  0:09       ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2009-07-07  1:21         ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-07-08  0:45           ` Juri Linkov
2009-07-08  5:53             ` Drew Adams
2009-07-08 23:27               ` Juri Linkov
2009-07-08 23:42                 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-07-09 15:01                 ` Drew Adams
2009-07-09 22:16                   ` Juri Linkov
2009-07-09 22:32                     ` Drew Adams
2009-07-09 23:05                       ` Juri Linkov
2009-07-09 23:15                         ` Drew Adams
2009-07-08 23:49             ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-07-09 22:19               ` Juri Linkov
2009-11-19 17:30                 ` Juri Linkov
2009-11-19 21:12                   ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-20  9:28                     ` Juri Linkov
2009-11-23 20:39                     ` Juri Linkov
2009-11-30 16:30   ` bug#3746: marked as done (M-r in comint mode should use isearch) Emacs bug Tracking System

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