From: Dani Moncayo <dmoncayo@gmail.com>
To: Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
Cc: Nix <nix@esperi.org.uk>,
"Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>,
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: C-g from Isearch
Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2012 17:45:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAH8Pv0iRyif-zkbPsYS63MhQ9KVUao13C0URt9KKF8+shP1NkQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a9w3popx.fsf@gnu.org>
>> In XEmacs, this is useless duplication. Deleting the character has
>> the same effect some rather large fraction of the time, as it's
>> unusual that multiple not found characters are typed.
>
> Fast typing, and yank are two ways this can happen quite easily.
Yank doesn't count here, since the whole yanked string will be removed
from the search string with a single <backspace> keystroke.
> That
> said, I never knew about this behaviour of C-g in isearch before, and
> never would have expected it. I usually end my isearch with RET, but if
> I did try C-g I would be surprised to see it working like undo rather
> than quit.
I agree, but that is the current behavior in Emacs. At least, you can
fix this with
(define-key isearch-mode-map [?\C-g] 'isearch-cancel)
--
Dani Moncayo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-03 15:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-02 15:42 C-g from Isearch (was: Isearch: retrieve last successful search string from when you quit (`C-g')) Dani Moncayo
2012-10-02 16:22 ` Drew Adams
2012-10-02 17:05 ` Dani Moncayo
2012-10-02 17:06 ` C-g from Isearch Stefan Monnier
2012-10-02 17:08 ` Nix
2012-10-02 17:18 ` Drew Adams
2012-10-03 1:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-10-03 5:08 ` C-g from Isearch (was: Isearch: retrieve last successful search string from when you quit (`C-g')) Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-10-03 6:37 ` Dani Moncayo
2012-10-03 15:19 ` C-g from Isearch Jason Rumney
2012-10-03 15:45 ` Dani Moncayo [this message]
2012-10-03 16:44 ` Jason Rumney
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