From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
To: Michael Welsh Duggan <md5i@md5i.com>
Cc: Christoph <cschol2112@googlemail.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] (Or "question"...) isearch-kill-found
Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 17:32:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTimPG98_7M3jrFU3qdQpH8lfaBoy1vZhdDeaaRG-@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bpbwoihx.fsf@maru.md5i.com>
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 5:30 AM, Michael Welsh Duggan <md5i@md5i.com> wrote:
> Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 12:19 AM, Christoph <cschol2112@googlemail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> In that same thread Davis Herring had an idea that sounds interesting and
>>> useful to me:
>>> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-07/msg00492.html
>>>
>>>> Thinking about this, I realize
>>>> that I would get almost all the utility of this idea with just one
>>>> command
>>>> added to isearch which meant "exit and move point to start of match", or
>>>> (closer to your idea) a command which meant "exit and drop mark at start
>>>> of match" in place of your toggle. WDOT?
>>>
>>>
>>> I think a function "exit and drop mark at start of match" would be very
>>> useful.
>>
>>
>> Would it disturb if instead mark was always set to start of match?
>
> It would. I am often in a situation where I am at the beginning of a
> construct, use C-s to find the end of the construct, and then C-w or M-w
> to cut or copy it. I use this behavior frequently, especially when
> writing macros.
Thanks Michael, I see. And learned a bit more about using the mark.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-31 15:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-30 12:37 [PATCH] (Or "question"...) isearch-kill-found Deniz Dogan
2010-05-30 14:05 ` Johan Bockgård
2010-05-30 14:11 ` Deniz Dogan
2010-05-30 15:25 ` Drew Adams
2010-05-30 22:19 ` Christoph
2010-05-30 22:40 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-05-31 0:28 ` Drew Adams
2010-05-31 3:30 ` Michael Welsh Duggan
2010-05-31 15:32 ` Lennart Borgman [this message]
2010-05-31 0:48 ` Drew Adams
2010-05-30 18:36 ` Juri Linkov
2010-05-31 14:24 ` Chong Yidong
2010-05-31 15:38 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-05-31 15:54 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-05-31 16:50 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-05-31 19:14 ` Drew Adams
2010-05-31 19:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-05-31 20:04 ` Drew Adams
2010-06-01 3:10 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-06-01 4:43 ` Drew Adams
2010-06-01 12:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-06-01 13:55 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-06-01 19:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-06-01 19:15 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-06-01 21:03 ` Richard Stallman
2010-05-31 20:14 ` Juri Linkov
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