Re: bug#8183: isearch yanking

Re: bug#8183: isearch yanking

[Chong Yidong]

gnu.emacs.bug@wongs.net writes:

> I just spent a while trying to track down a bug in isearch.el that
> turned out to be a "feature".  C-y has been hijacked to do some weird
> thing where it pastes the entire next line of the buffer instead of
> the kill ring. (Wacky!)

> Fortunately, the fix for this is easy. In isearch.el, just change the
> line that defines C-y as isearch-yank-line to isearch-yank-kill.

This has been bugging me, and has been discussed before, e.g.

  http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-11/msg00485.html

Back in that 2008 thread, Juri Linkov suggested exactly this change, and
moving isearch-yank-line over to M-s C-e.

Nothing seemed to come of that suggestion, maybe due to simple inertia.
I now propose to make it so.  Any objections?

Re: bug#8183: isearch yanking

[Lennart Borgman]

On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 1:23 AM, Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com> wrote:
> gnu.emacs.bug@wongs.net writes:
>
>> I just spent a while trying to track down a bug in isearch.el that
>> turned out to be a "feature".  C-y has been hijacked to do some weird
>> thing where it pastes the entire next line of the buffer instead of
>> the kill ring. (Wacky!)
>
>> Fortunately, the fix for this is easy. In isearch.el, just change the
>> line that defines C-y as isearch-yank-line to isearch-yank-kill.
>
> This has been bugging me, and has been discussed before, e.g.
>
>  http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-11/msg00485.html
>
> Back in that 2008 thread, Juri Linkov suggested exactly this change, and
> moving isearch-yank-line over to M-s C-e.
>
> Nothing seemed to come of that suggestion, maybe due to simple inertia.
> I now propose to make it so.  Any objections?

It might have stalled because we where discussing other changes to
isearch keymap, but I can see no reason to not make the proposed
change here.

Re: bug#8183: isearch yanking

[Stefan Monnier]

> Nothing seemed to come of that suggestion, maybe due to simple inertia.
> I now propose to make it so.  Any objections?

Please go ahead,


        Stefan

Re: bug#8183: isearch yanking

[Dani Moncayo]

On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 06:33, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>> Nothing seemed to come of that suggestion, maybe due to simple inertia.
>> I now propose to make it so.  Any objections?
>
> Please go ahead,
>

FWIW, this bug is a duplicate of #7700.

...and what about M-y? If we are looking for consistency, M-y should
also DTRT, i.e., replace the just-yanked (in the Isearch prompt) text
with an earlier entry from the kill-ring.


Regards,

-- 
Dani Moncayo