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From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: juri@jurta.org, acm@muc.de, dan.colascione@gmail.com,
	emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: `isearch-allow-scroll' - a misnomer and a bad design
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 10:10:10 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1R3qAE-0004jd-GT@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <EC314AC4B98044A48365D3AB33517D10@us.oracle.com> (drew.adams@oracle.com)

It is not an issue of how many "ways to exit isearch" there are.  It
is an issue of how many commands you need to remember WON'T exit the
search.  The idea of isearch is that control characters exit, except
for a short list of a few.  But that list has been growing.

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-09-14 14:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-09 20:38 `isearch-allow-scroll' - a misnomer and a bad design Drew Adams
2011-09-09 21:52 ` Alan Mackenzie
2011-09-09 23:07   ` Drew Adams
2011-09-10  0:58     ` Stefan Monnier
2011-09-10  7:48       ` Drew Adams
2011-09-10 11:28       ` Alan Mackenzie
2011-09-10 16:44         ` Drew Adams
2011-09-10 11:47       ` Juri Linkov
2011-09-10 12:13         ` Alan Mackenzie
2011-09-10  2:03     ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-09-10 11:10     ` Alan Mackenzie
2011-09-10 16:43       ` Drew Adams
2011-09-10 19:04         ` Alan Mackenzie
2011-09-10 20:22           ` PJ Weisberg
2011-09-10 23:06             ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-09-11  0:47           ` Drew Adams
2011-09-11 10:39     ` Alan Mackenzie
2011-09-11 16:54       ` Drew Adams
2011-09-11 17:30         ` Alan Mackenzie
2011-09-11 18:53           ` Drew Adams
2011-09-12  2:46             ` Richard Stallman
2011-09-12  9:36               ` Alan Mackenzie
2011-09-13  1:39                 ` Richard Stallman
2011-09-13 14:27                   ` Alan Mackenzie
2011-09-13 20:05                     ` Richard Stallman
2011-09-13 21:04                       ` Drew Adams
2011-09-13 22:52                         ` Juri Linkov
2011-09-14  0:32                           ` Daniel Colascione
2011-09-14  0:41                             ` Drew Adams
2011-09-14 14:10                               ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2011-09-14 14:35                                 ` PJ Weisberg
2011-09-15  4:11                                   ` Richard Stallman
2011-09-14 14:44                                 ` Drew Adams
2011-09-18  2:52                                   ` Richard Stallman
2011-09-19 19:08                                     ` chad
2011-09-20 15:16                                       ` Richard Stallman
2011-09-20 19:17                                         ` Michael Welsh Duggan
2011-09-20 19:59                                           ` Dani Moncayo
2011-09-21  1:22                                             ` Stefan Monnier
2011-09-21 14:51                                               ` Richard Stallman
2011-09-21 15:01                                                 ` Dani Moncayo
2011-09-21 15:10                                                 ` Drew Adams
2011-09-21 16:35                                                 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
     [not found]                                                   ` <E1R6Tii-0000zy-Jw@f!! encepost.gnu.org>
2011-09-21 20:48                                                   ` Richard Stallman
2011-09-21 21:13                                                     ` Drew Adams
2011-09-22 13:58                                                       ` Richard Stallman
2011-10-08 21:13                                                       ` Drew Adams
2011-09-22  5:33                                                     ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-09-22 13:59                                                       ` Richard Stallman
2011-09-22 10:35                                                     ` Alan Mackenzie
2011-09-22 21:44                                                       ` Richard Stallman
2011-09-22 22:23                                                         ` PJ Weisberg
2011-09-23 12:30                                                           ` Richard Stallman
2011-09-21  9:04                                             ` Alan Mackenzie
2011-09-21  9:27                                               ` Dani Moncayo
2011-09-21  9:29                                               ` chad
2011-09-21 13:22                                               ` Drew Adams
2011-09-21 14:50                                             ` Richard Stallman
2011-09-12 14:59               ` Drew Adams

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