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From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
To: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>, 3746@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Cc: Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>
Subject: bug#3746: M-r in comint mode should use isearch
Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2009 01:42:05 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e01d8a50907081642ifae1fc6u5e8cf7e74afd1454@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zlbf1kr0.fsf@mail.jurta.org>

On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 1:27 AM, Juri Linkov<juri@jurta.org> wrote:
>> 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

I do not think it is an exception. I think it is a way of thinking we
should always consider.





  reply	other threads:[~2009-07-08 23:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <87ocmknicw.fsf@mail.jurta.org>
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
2009-07-08 23:42                 ` Lennart Borgman [this message]
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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