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From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: juri@linkov.net, drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Why change the advertised bindings of Isearch commands?
Date: Sat, 28 Nov 2015 00:33:50 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1a2Y8s-0005x0-4d@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83egfbub4q.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Fri, 27 Nov 2015 09:58:29 +0200)

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  > The issue is not how to exit Isearch.  The issue is how to go forward
  > one sentence or capitalize a word while in Isearch.  What you are
  > saying is that a user who spots a word to be capitalized during
  > Isearch needs to do at least 2 things: exit Isearch with some key,
  > then type M-c.  Jury wants just M-c within Isearch to do both.

I was unhappy when M-c was given a special search meaning, for precisely
this reason.  I've actually been tripped up by M-c and with M-e, though
not very often.


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  reply	other threads:[~2015-11-28  5:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-11-26 18:45 Why change the advertised bindings of Isearch commands? Drew Adams
2015-11-26 23:16 ` Juri Linkov
2015-11-27  0:03   ` Drew Adams
2015-11-27  7:58     ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-28  5:33       ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2015-11-28 20:30         ` John Wiegley
     [not found] <<98f8a71f-1f10-4ff6-a4c1-8dc2d179b84b@default>
     [not found] ` <<87ziy05p3g.fsf@mail.linkov.net>
     [not found]   ` <<1a6f342a-3e59-4555-a345-e518cc598299@default>
     [not found]     ` <<83egfbub4q.fsf@gnu.org>
2015-11-27  9:33       ` Drew Adams
2015-11-27 10:16         ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found] <<dddad317-4c44-4a68-b1d3-19bbd3a6746f@default>
     [not found] ` <<83k2p3sq71.fsf@gnu.org>
2015-11-27 16:50   ` Drew Adams
2015-11-27 23:09     ` Juri Linkov
2015-11-28  1:01       ` Drew Adams

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