From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: `isearch-allow-scroll' - a misnomer and a bad design Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 01:52:53 +0300 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <8739g0vyuy.fsf@mail.jurta.org> References: <20110909215255.GD2733@acm.acm> <7002A9DA9A804F0B9F6F251FD3A2B263@us.oracle.com> <20110911103940.GA3246@acm.acm> <3C4B7E318EB04AE4B7DB9FD0E4C67629@us.oracle.com> <20110911173012.GA3088@acm.acm> <20110912093651.GA3249@acm.acm> <20110913142732.GB3081@acm.acm> <7E2EE144B11D413583E1E659CDE15186@us.oracle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1315954761 1034 80.91.229.12 (13 Sep 2011 22:59:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 22:59:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 'Alan Mackenzie' , rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Drew Adams" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 14 00:59:15 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1R3bwc-0006rZ-NQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Sep 2011 00:59:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54829 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R3bwc-0001K3-Aa for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:59:10 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:38994) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R3bwZ-0001Jw-44 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:59:08 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R3bwX-00034m-LN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:59:07 -0400 Original-Received: from smarty.dreamhost.com ([208.113.175.8]:53794) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R3bwX-00034O-HI; Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:59:05 -0400 Original-Received: from ps18281.dreamhostps.com (ps18281.dreamhost.com [69.163.218.105]) by smarty.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B66C6E8064; Tue, 13 Sep 2011 15:59:03 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from localhost (ps18281.dreamhostps.com [69.163.218.105]) by ps18281.dreamhostps.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19A45451C2E0; Tue, 13 Sep 2011 15:59:01 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <7E2EE144B11D413583E1E659CDE15186@us.oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Tue, 13 Sep 2011 14:04:00 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 208.113.175.8 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:144003 Archived-At: > Any other arguments wrt the default value? Another argument for not exiting isearch with C-u by default is that some isearch commands accept the C-u argument and change their behavior accordingly depending on `current-prefix-arg' like `isearch-yank-char', `isearch-del-char', `isearch-query-replace', `isearch-query-replace-regexp', `isearch-occur', but currently users can't use C-u to access their full functionality without customizing `isearch-allow-scroll' to t.