From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: isearch-yank-char Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 12:52:28 +0300 Organization: JURTA Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87wu3xx06b.fsf@mail.jurta.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1083320065 12540 80.91.224.253 (30 Apr 2004 10:14:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 10:14:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Karl Fogel , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 30 12:14:16 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 1BJV28-0001mF-00 for ; Fri, 30 Apr 2004 12:14:16 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BJV28-0000fp-00 for ; Fri, 30 Apr 2004 12:14:16 +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 1BJUuC-0000Hb-EP for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Fri, 30 Apr 2004 06:06:04 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BJUsX-0008HT-QS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Apr 2004 06:04:21 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BJUoc-00077d-Ee for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Apr 2004 06:00:50 -0400 Original-Received: from [66.33.219.4] (helo=spork.dreamhost.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BJUob-00076y-EW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Apr 2004 06:00:17 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.jurta.org (80-235-32-226-dsl.mus.estpak.ee [80.235.32.226]) by spork.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E14C11DC25; Fri, 30 Apr 2004 03:00:14 -0700 (PDT) Original-To: Alan Mackenzie In-Reply-To: (Alan Mackenzie's message of "Fri, 30 Apr 2004 08:31:32 +0000 (GMT)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) 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:22424 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:22424 Alan Mackenzie writes: > I think it would be a good idea to resolve this issue before implementing > a C-b. I'm not sure whether I'd rather do without C-b here than have > some ugly inconsistency, even if that inconsistency only appears in > marginal circumstances. Relying on existing isearch functions guarantees its consistency, i.e. when a character is removed from the end of isearch-string, and isearch state is updated by the standard isearch function, it produces good results: its state is updated according to isearch-string without backtracking. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/