From: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 3746@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com, 'Dan Nicolaescu' <dann@ics.uci.edu>
Subject: bug#3746: M-r in comint mode should use isearch
Date: Thu, 09 Jul 2009 02:27:45 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zlbf1kr0.fsf@mail.jurta.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <30EDDB5AC92A422E87D113B0A49C500E@us.oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Tue, 7 Jul 2009 22:53:29 -0700")
> The general objection is rather Occam's razor: _Why_ add such complexity?
> What is gained? Occasionally the added convenience of having a single key
> to use makes a DWIM command worth it. But usually not.
This case is an exception.
C-r is the most frequent key I use in bash running in xterm because
it is very convenient to search for old commands in the shell history.
I suppose the same is true for other users.
Using a different key in Emacs for the same functionality
will cause too much trouble. Just imagine when you have a habit
typing C-r to search on the shell history, typing it in the Emacs
shell buffer will not do what you mean. This recalls that
Emacs has a different key M-r. Then switching back to xterm
and typing M-r: Ahh, that M-r is valid only in Emacs,
but in xterm it is C-r. Arrrgh!
I think having two different keys for the same functionality
(C-r and M-r for Isearch on the history) is worse than having
the same key for different contexts (the shell prompt or the
rest of the shell buffer).
--
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-08 23:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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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
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 [this message]
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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