Re: Isearch halts in commands and macros

["Aaron S. Hawley" <Aaron.Hawley@uvm.edu>]

On Sat, 29 Oct 2005, Richard M. Stallman wrote:

>     To reproduce, evaluate the following key binding:
>
>       (global-set-key [?\C-.] "\C-s\C-w")
>
> Don't you mean C-s C-m C-w?

No, I didn't mean "Word Search", the "special case of nonincremental
search".  I'm sorry about the confusion.  I didn't even know "Word Search"
existed until you mentioned it.  What I meant was searching with Isearch
and grabbing the next word in the buffer with C-w.

> The reason this can't work is that ending the macro
> forces exit of the minibuffer that C-s C-m enters.
> That is a flaw, but not an easy one to fix.

I can imagine.

Only after seeing that a macro with Isearch could work as one would expect
in GNU Emacs 20 did I determine that the behavior was a reasonable
expectation to make of Emacs and therefore worthy of sending a bug report.

I actually don't require this key binding for Isearch in my editing, but
came across it in my missionary work for the Church of Emacs.  I was
trying to help a Vi user port a favored Vi-command into their reborn life
with Emacs.

/a