From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: isearch-yank-word-or-char Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2007 17:23:49 -0700 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1185755165 4199 80.91.229.12 (30 Jul 2007 00:26:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 00:26:05 +0000 (UTC) To: "Emacs-Devel" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 30 02:25:58 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IFJ5C-00051R-FZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Jul 2007 02:25:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IFJ5B-0005lh-LL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 29 Jul 2007 20:25:57 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IFJ4j-000510-Iu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Jul 2007 20:25:29 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IFJ4h-0004zV-I2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Jul 2007 20:25:28 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IFJ4h-0004zO-CB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Jul 2007 20:25:27 -0400 Original-Received: from agminet01.oracle.com ([141.146.126.228]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IFJ4h-0002UL-1t for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Jul 2007 20:25:27 -0400 Original-Received: from agmgw2.us.oracle.com (agmgw2.us.oracle.com [152.68.180.213]) by agminet01.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.1.7) with ESMTP id l6U0PO9Y004345 for ; Sun, 29 Jul 2007 19:25:24 -0500 Original-Received: from acsmt351.oracle.com (acsmt351.oracle.com [141.146.40.151]) by agmgw2.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.0/Switch-3.2.0) with ESMTP id l6TMj0Wj016211 for ; Sun, 29 Jul 2007 18:25:24 -0600 Original-Received: from dhcp-amer-csvpn-gw2-141-144-73-26.vpn.oracle.com by acsmt350.oracle.com with ESMTP id 3078912161185755044; Sun, 29 Jul 2007 17:24:04 -0700 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3138 X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:75798 Archived-At: In Emacs 22, C-w in Isearch is "smarter" than I would like it to be - or else I haven't yet learned how to use it (suggestions welcome). The doc says only that "The decision, whether to copy a character or a word, is heuristic." Does that mean that a user has no control over the behavior? (or (eq foo '(bar . toto Previously, with point at bol here, C-s plus 5 C-w's would select everything through toto. Now, it takes 14 C-w's to do the same thing! That's a real nuisance. What am I missing? Is there some way to get it to collect multiple non-word characters such as spaces, parens, and period with a single keystroke when it is in "word" mode? So far, I prefer the pre-Emacs 22 behavior of Isearch, but I'm sure that others tried this out before the release and found it to be an improvement (TRT). I'm hoping that someone will point out why the new behavior is better and how to take advantage of it. Thanks in advance; this is driving me nuts.