From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Cc: juri@jurta.org, ams@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org,
"Andrew W. Nosenko" <andrew.w.nosenko@gmail.com>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: isearch and M-y/C-y
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:27:18 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <buo1vx5reyh.fsf@dhapc248.dev.necel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jek5ayz9q0.fsf@sykes.suse.de> (Andreas Schwab's message of "Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:40:55 +0100")
Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> writes:
>> It would be very bad to give C-k a special meaning in a search.
>> Using it to exit a search is very useful.
>
> In general we should be very reluctant to steal more keys in isearch.
I agree -- in general -- but it's kind of hard to imagine that many
people use C-k to exit isearch ... it's seems pretty unlikely the point
will be correctly placed for that command to be very useful.
The M-y/C-y issue, by contrast, actually does confuse many people.
-Miles
--
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-21 2:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-16 15:31 isearch and M-y/C-y Alfred M. Szmidt
2008-11-16 22:18 ` Juri Linkov
2008-11-17 18:14 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2008-11-18 22:03 ` Juri Linkov
2008-11-18 22:59 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2008-11-19 12:51 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-11-19 15:24 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2008-11-19 23:18 ` Juri Linkov
2008-11-20 17:14 ` mail
2008-11-20 17:43 ` Eric Schulte
2008-11-21 0:50 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-11-21 23:16 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-11-20 14:26 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-11-20 1:05 ` Andrew W. Nosenko
2008-11-20 15:02 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-11-20 15:40 ` Andreas Schwab
2008-11-21 2:27 ` Miles Bader [this message]
2008-11-21 4:09 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-11-21 23:15 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-11-19 13:36 ` Teemu Likonen
2008-11-19 15:21 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2008-11-19 15:31 ` Andreas Schwab
2008-11-19 15:39 ` Teemu Likonen
2008-11-19 15:46 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
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