From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Richard M. Stallman" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Patch that adds help to isearch Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 23:22:48 -0500 Message-ID: References: <4386466E.4090407@student.lu.se> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1132979057 30915 80.91.229.2 (26 Nov 2005 04:24:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2005 04:24:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 26 05:24:08 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Efrb6-00010t-81 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 Nov 2005 05:23:36 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Efrb5-0000bP-Al for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Nov 2005 23:23:35 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EfraN-0000CJ-6Y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Nov 2005 23:22:51 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EfraL-0000BS-Kl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Nov 2005 23:22:49 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EfraL-0000BM-HP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Nov 2005 23:22:49 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1EfraL-0005ID-Ip for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Nov 2005 23:22:49 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1EfraK-0003ga-JN; Fri, 25 Nov 2005 23:22:48 -0500 Original-To: Lennart Borgman In-reply-to: <4386466E.4090407@student.lu.se> (message from Lennart Borgman on Fri, 25 Nov 2005 00:02:06 +0100) 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:46596 Archived-At: Some months ago we discussed help for isearch-forward/backward. I tried several alternatives at that time, but did not send in any patch. The attached patch is a simple way to give help. It simply defines C-h and f1 to call isearch-mode-help I don't want to make such a change now, and perhaps not ever. Too many control characters are special already in isearch. (I turned off one of them a couple of months ago.) I also found some small errors which I tried to correct. This was something with the isearch-ring but I can not remember the details right now. I included that also in the patch however. Can you please separate those bug fixes out and explain the bugs they fix? I renamed search-ring-update to isearch-ring-update which seems more consistent. Maybe that should not be done if that breaks something? I don't want to change these names now. BTW I think there may be some useful key definitions missing in the help. Could you for example not switch the direction with C-r? Should not that be added to the help? Could you be more specific about the change you mean?