From: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
Cc: lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Patch that adds help to isearch
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 11:04:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87veybkeqm.fsf@jurta.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1EfraK-0003ga-JN@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard M. Stallman's message of "Fri, 25 Nov 2005 23:22:48 -0500")
> Some months ago we discussed help for isearch-forward/backward.
> I tried several alternatives at that time, but did not send in
> any patch. The attached patch is a simple way to give help.
> It simply defines C-h and f1 to call isearch-mode-help
>
> I don't want to make such a change now, and perhaps not ever. Too
> many control characters are special already in isearch. (I turned off
> one of them a couple of months ago.)
What about enabling isearch-mode-help only when the search string is empty?
I understand the need to exit the search with C-h when the search
string is not empty like in the case of `C-s some-function-name C-h f RET'
to call `describe-function' on the found function name. But I don't see
the need to exit the search with C-h just after C-s as in `C-s C-h f'.
OTOH, I can imagine users (especially novices) after typing C-s and seeing
the prompt `I-search: ' wanting the help about what to do next. It is
natural for them to type C-h in this case to see the Help buffer from
`isearch-mode-help'.
--
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-11-29 9:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-11-24 23:02 Patch that adds help to isearch Lennart Borgman
2005-11-26 4:22 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-11-27 22:53 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-11-28 7:21 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-11-29 9:04 ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2005-11-29 21:47 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-11-29 22:12 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-11-30 2:48 ` Juri Linkov
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2005-11-29 10:23 LENNART BORGMAN
2005-11-30 2:47 ` Juri Linkov
2005-11-30 8:24 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-11-30 15:34 ` Juri Linkov
2005-11-30 22:27 ` Lennart Borgman
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