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#6232: Suggestion for isearch: in backward search yank to front of search string Date: Fri, 21 May 2010 03:09:37 +0300 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <87sk5myv0i.fsf@mail.jurta.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1274401638 4706 80.91.229.12 (21 May 2010 00:27:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 21 May 2010 00:27:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 6232@debbugs.gnu.org To: Lennart Borgman Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 21 02:27:16 2010 connect(): No such file or directory 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OFG56-00045E-Be for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 May 2010 02:27:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55268 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OFG55-0007J1-H9 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 May 2010 20:27:15 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=38046 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OFG4t-0007Hj-Cx for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 20 May 2010 20:27:06 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OFG4r-0008BI-OG for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 20 May 2010 20:27:03 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:40769) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OFG4r-0008BB-L9 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 20 May 2010 20:27:01 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OFFrK-0002BW-W2; Thu, 20 May 2010 20:13:03 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Juri Linkov Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-To: owner@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Fri, 21 May 2010 00:13:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 6232 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 6232-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B6232.12744007298380 (code B ref 6232); Fri, 21 May 2010 00:13:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 6232) by debbugs.gnu.org; 21 May 2010 00:12:09 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OFFqS-0002B4-4Y for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 20 May 2010 20:12:08 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp-out1.starman.ee ([85.253.0.3] helo=mx1.starman.ee) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OFFqQ-0002Ac-8n for 6232@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 20 May 2010 20:12:06 -0400 X-Virus-Scanned: by Amavisd-New at mx1.starman.ee Original-Received: from mail.starman.ee (82.131.33.97.cable.starman.ee [82.131.33.97]) by mx1.starman.ee (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0D493F412F; Fri, 21 May 2010 03:11:59 +0300 (EEST) In-Reply-To: (Lennart Borgman's message of "Thu, 20 May 2010 18:09:12 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 20:13:02 -0400 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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:37123 Archived-At: > Yanking to the end of the search string in isearh (i.e. C-w etc.) is > very practical. However I miss yanking to the front of the search > string. > > My suggestion is to change the semantics a bit and yank to the front > of the search string when searching backwards. What do you think? I think this would be wrong to do because C-w and all other yanking commands always yank in the forward direction. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/