From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Karl Fogel Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: isearch-yank-char Date: 30 Apr 2004 12:34:14 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87hdv15q09.fsf@floss.red-bean.com> References: <874qr7l59b.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <20040426230345.GA8594@fencepost> <877jw2cq4f.fsf@floss.red-bean.com> <87ad0xvo33.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <871xm8wv6j.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <87n04u77z8.fsf@floss.red-bean.com> <87k6zygjff.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <8765bi75vp.fsf@floss.red-bean.com> <87hdv1c1lm.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <87y8od60if.fsf@floss.red-bean.com> <87zn8t6v8z.fsf@mail.jurta.org> Reply-To: kfogel@red-bean.com NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1083369269 22041 80.91.224.253 (30 Apr 2004 23:54:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 23:54:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Sat May 01 01:54:21 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BJhpl-0003bF-00 for ; Sat, 01 May 2004 01:54:21 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BJhpk-0007S7-00 for ; Sat, 01 May 2004 01:54:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BJhp8-0001nt-R5 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Fri, 30 Apr 2004 19:53:42 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BJhni-0001gb-J1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Apr 2004 19:52:14 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BJhn5-0000nk-8x for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Apr 2004 19:52:06 -0400 Original-Received: from [207.115.63.73] (helo=pimout5-ext.prodigy.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BJhn4-0000nI-Sv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Apr 2004 19:51:34 -0400 Original-Received: from floss.red-bean.com (adsl-66-73-175-183.dsl.chcgil.ameritech.net [66.73.175.183]) by pimout5-ext.prodigy.net (8.12.10 milter /8.12.10) with ESMTP id i3UNpY2b086390; Fri, 30 Apr 2004 19:51:34 -0400 Original-Received: from kfogel by floss.red-bean.com with local (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 1BJbtu-0007B9-00; Fri, 30 Apr 2004 12:34:14 -0500 Original-To: Juri Linkov Emacs: Lovecraft was an optimist. In-Reply-To: <87zn8t6v8z.fsf@mail.jurta.org> Original-Lines: 18 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:22473 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:22473 Juri Linkov writes: > The current implementation of C-b is: > > (defun isearch-del-char () > "Discard last character and move point back. > If there is no previous character, just beep." > (interactive) > (if (equal isearch-string "") > (ding) > (setq isearch-string (substring isearch-string 0 -1) > isearch-message (mapconcat 'isearch-text-char-description > isearch-string ""))) > (isearch-search-and-update)) Thanks! I'll try it out. Is this your full patch? If there's more, post it & I'll test with that (i.e., including the keybindings and anything else).