From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: isearch and M-y/C-y Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:09:53 +0900 Message-ID: <87hc61lnxq.fsf@xemacs.org> References: <1226849462.184357.3770.nullmailer@null> <87zljzpbml.fsf@jurta.org> <1226945661.613276.9583.nullmailer@null> <87k5b22br7.fsf@jurta.org> <6161f3180811191705k1da9e683g347a1dac593768c2@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1227240402 21384 80.91.229.12 (21 Nov 2008 04:06:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 04:06:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, Andreas Schwab , "Andrew W. Nosenko" , emacs-devel@gnu.org, juri@jurta.org, ams@gnu.org To: Miles Bader Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 21 05:07:44 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 1L3NJ1-0000tp-3h for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Nov 2008 05:07:43 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49467 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L3NHs-0005Ug-2H for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:06:32 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L3NHK-00057u-Va for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:05:59 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L3NHJ-00056M-FL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:05:58 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=41868 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L3NHJ-00056G-6o for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:05:57 -0500 Original-Received: from mtps01.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.223]:50017) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L3NHE-0004Y3-90; Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:05:52 -0500 Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) by mtps01.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id B67AA1535AF; Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:05:49 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 59A821A2D03; Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:09:54 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: VM 8.0.12-devo-585 under 21.5 (beta28) "fuki" 83e35df20028+ XEmacs Lucid (x86_64-unknown-linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:105874 Archived-At: Miles Bader writes: > I agree -- in general -- but it's kind of hard to imagine that many > people use C-k to exit isearch ... it's seems pretty unlikely the point > will be correctly placed for that command to be very useful. Well, true if you're searching for something semantically meaningful. But C-s is the keyboard analog to pointing with the mouse, and it has the advantage that things don't even have to be on-screen. For example, if I want to copy a sexp starting with "(x" I've seen later in the file I often use "C-s ( x C-r C-k C-y C-u C-SPC". I call this "What You Saw Is What You Get" navigation, and I way prefer it to other interpretations of WYSIWYG. ;-) >