From: Hallvard B Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no>
Subject: Re: C-s C-s... with no previous string
Date: 09 Jan 2003 19:45:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <HBF.20030109tt54@bombur.uio.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.23.1041532825.28484.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Kevin Rodgers <kevin.rodgers@ihs.com> writes:
>> Maybe emacs should say something if no previous string is known:
>> $ emacs
>> C-s C-s [C-s...]
>>
>> At it is it feels like one has hit XOFF :-)
>
> I agree. Here's one way to do it:
> (...)
> ! (message "Search ring is empty")
> ! (sleep-for 1)
Please, no! I hate to wait for sleeps. Use sit-for, so I can continue
editing at once. Or better, temporarily append " [Search ring is
empty]" to the prompt, but I guess that's more work.
--
Hallvard
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-01-01 23:11 C-s C-s... with no previous string Dan Jacobson
2003-01-02 18:16 ` Kevin Rodgers
[not found] ` <mailman.23.1041532825.28484.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-01-09 18:45 ` Hallvard B Furuseth [this message]
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