From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: @#$! new behavior of C-b & C-f in i-search Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 21:50:51 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <86k6za1afm.fsf@rumba.de.uu.net> <871xlfaat6.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <40ACEC27.6040401@yahoo.com> <87k6z2jjm5.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <87pt8brhpf.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <87r7sma4o7.fsf@mail.jurta.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1087005146 29384 80.91.224.253 (12 Jun 2004 01:52:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2004 01:52:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 12 03:52:22 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 1BYxh0-0001Zq-00 for ; Sat, 12 Jun 2004 03:52:22 +0200 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BYxh0-0006bs-00 for ; Sat, 12 Jun 2004 03:52:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BYxhl-00046g-Op for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Fri, 11 Jun 2004 21:53:09 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BYxgg-0003QO-78 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Jun 2004 21:52:02 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BYxgd-0003P8-M5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Jun 2004 21:52:00 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BYxgd-0003Nt-4d for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Jun 2004 21:51:59 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BYxfY-0001rq-B6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Jun 2004 21:50:52 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1BYxfX-0007P5-8k; Fri, 11 Jun 2004 21:50:51 -0400 Original-To: Juri Linkov In-reply-to: <87r7sma4o7.fsf@mail.jurta.org> (message from Juri Linkov on Fri, 11 Jun 2004 11:17:32 +0300) 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:24853 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:24853 C-M-w could be used as a key switching between word and character modes, i.e. after typing C-M-w in isearch mode subsequent C-w will pull a character and DEL will delete a character. Another C-M-w will switch back to word mode with C-w and DEL restoring their current meaning. This might be too complex to be useful. But people could try it out and report if they use it.