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From: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 'Stefan Monnier' <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
	joakim@verona.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: binding c-h in isearch
Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 01:59:12 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8763ud1mdf.fsf@jurta.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <001b01c8a263$27d917e0$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Sat, 19 Apr 2008 14:20:12 -0700")

>> > It is difficult to remmeber all nice features of isearch.
>> > Would it be possible to bind c-h to isearch-mode-help in isearch?
>>
>> There's the following code in isearch.el:
>>
>>     ;; Turned off because I find I expect to get the global
>>     ;; definition--rms.
>>     ;; ;; Instead bind C-h to special help command for isearch-mode.
>>     ;; (define-key map "\C-h" 'isearch-mode-help)
>>
>> So it seems that Richard found it inconvenient.  Could someone try and
>> work out some clever way to reconcile the two functionalities?
>>
>> E.g. provide the generic help on C-h but the isearch-specific help on
>> C-h C-h, or vice versa?
>
> Since this can of worms has been opened and stirred...
>
> FWIW, I disagree with the approach being considered (Juri's suggestion etc.). It
> is complicated for nothing. The simplest approach is the best: C-h during
> isearch should give the isearch bindings - bind C-h to `isearch-mode-help'.
>
> That is the convention, and it is a good one. This is like C-h following any
> other prefix key. Richard is just wrong about this. Why jump through hoops?

Isearch mode is a mode, not a prefix key.

-- 
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/




  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-04-19 22:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-16 12:10 binding c-h in isearch joakim
2008-04-16 13:30 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-04-16 22:35   ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-04-16 15:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-04-16 17:44   ` Paul R
2008-04-17 19:25   ` joakim
2008-04-17 23:14   ` Juri Linkov
2008-04-18  0:42     ` Stefan Monnier
2008-04-19 20:07       ` Juri Linkov
2008-04-19 20:49         ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-04-19 22:52           ` Juri Linkov
2008-04-20  0:53             ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-04-20 23:51               ` Juri Linkov
2008-04-21  0:13                 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-04-19 20:57         ` Stefan Monnier
2008-04-19 22:49           ` Juri Linkov
2008-04-18 10:59     ` Johan Bockgård
2008-04-19 21:20   ` Drew Adams
2008-04-19 21:49     ` Stefan Monnier
2008-04-19 22:39       ` Drew Adams
2008-04-19 22:59     ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2008-04-19 23:39       ` Drew Adams

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