From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
Cc: 38185@debbugs.gnu.org, "積丹尼 Dan Jacobson" <jidanni@jidanni.org>
Subject: bug#38185: isearch-yank-word-or-char grabs periods at ends of words when used on man pages
Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2019 06:51:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bltbgien.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87tv73r929.fsf@mail.linkov.net> (Juri Linkov's message of "Sat, 16 Nov 2019 22:25:18 +0200")
Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net> writes:
> isearch-yank-word-or-char was intended to yank exactly the same text
> as navigated by forward-word.
And I guess we don't really want to change the syntax class of "." in
Man buffers, so there isn't really anything to fix here, and I'm closing
this bug report.
> However, I can't reproduce this issue in Man buffers: forward-word
> doesn't consider "." as part of a word. Ah, this is because I fixed
> this long ago in the init file ~/.emacs as:
>
> ;; Don't use `man-mode-syntax-table' that sets word syntax to `.', `_', `:'.
> (add-hook 'Man-mode-hook
> (lambda ()
> (set-syntax-table text-mode-syntax-table)))
(And Dan can do this if he wants a more text-mode like behaviour.)
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-11-10 0:02 bug#38185: isearch-yank-word-or-char grabs periods at ends of words when used on man pages 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2019-11-14 5:41 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-11-14 5:43 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-11-16 20:25 ` Juri Linkov
2019-11-17 5:51 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
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