From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Alfred M\. Szmidt" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: isearch and M-y/C-y Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 19:14:21 +0100 Message-ID: <1226945661.613276.9583.nullmailer@null> References: <1226849462.184357.3770.nullmailer@null> <87zljzpbml.fsf@jurta.org> Reply-To: ams@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1226945664 28810 80.91.229.12 (17 Nov 2008 18:14:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 18:14:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Juri Linkov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 17 19:15:25 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1L28dA-0003jb-3m for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Nov 2008 19:15:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46123 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L28c1-0006RO-8H for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Nov 2008 13:14:13 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L28bv-0006PL-4Q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Nov 2008 13:14:07 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L28br-0006NP-Jj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Nov 2008 13:14:06 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=50422 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L28br-0006NG-Fe for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Nov 2008 13:14:03 -0500 Original-Received: from hq.kreditor.se ([213.136.42.58]:1229 helo=auxid.hq.kred) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L28br-0006gy-92 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Nov 2008 13:14:03 -0500 Original-Received: by auxid.hq.kred (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 576E21378B1B; Mon, 17 Nov 2008 19:14:01 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from null (unknown [10.16.0.106]) by auxid.hq.kred (Postfix) with SMTP id 421CC13789C4; Mon, 17 Nov 2008 19:14:01 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: (nullmailer pid 9584 invoked by uid 1000); Mon, 17 Nov 2008 18:14:21 -0000 In-reply-to: <87zljzpbml.fsf@jurta.org> (message from Juri Linkov on Mon, 17 Nov 2008 00:18:34 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:105756 Archived-At: > Can we please make it so that C-y yanks text in isearch (when > doing C-s), and M-y can do whatever C-y is doing now... > > The current default is not very friendly, and not really what > you'd exepct C-y to do.. I'm afraid we can't change old traditional isearch keybindings. What we can do is to create a new isearch submode with better keybindings. Why not? Just because they are old does not mean that they are set in stone, we have done such changes before as well.