From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan Mackenzie Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: faq.texi Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 07:14:03 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1140027790 6310 80.91.229.2 (15 Feb 2006 18:23:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 18:23:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 15 19:23:07 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F9RIY-0006EU-0n for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Feb 2006 19:22:47 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F9RIX-00011n-AR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Feb 2006 13:22:41 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1F9OHV-00045y-Du for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Feb 2006 10:09:25 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1F9OBy-00014B-1Z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Feb 2006 10:03:44 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F9OBH-0008AA-0h for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Feb 2006 10:02:59 -0500 Original-Received: from [193.149.49.134] (helo=acm.acm) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1F9OG4-0004Ri-Na; Wed, 15 Feb 2006 10:07:57 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (root@localhost) by acm.acm (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id HAA00348; Wed, 15 Feb 2006 07:14:04 GMT X-Sender: root@acm.acm Original-To: Miles Bader In-Reply-To: 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:50572 Archived-At: On Wed, 15 Feb 2006, Miles Bader wrote: >On 2/15/06, Richard M. Stallman wrote: >> Either way we should find a replacement keybinding for isearch-yank-line, >> and this is not easy. >> Is it really useful? C-w in a search is definitely useful, but I have >> never seen a use for C-y. In general, a whole line of text is more >> than one needs to search for. >Maybe I'm weird, but I do tend to use C-y reasonably often in a >specific circumstance: when i want to see how well two regions of >text match, I go to the beginning of one, and hit C-y until the search >fails; this could be done with C-w too but it's a lot more tedious for >big regions. Maybe I'm also wierd, because I do this, too - more precisely, C-y through one region until the regexp highlighting stops on the other. >-Miles -- Alan Mackenzie (Munich, Germany)