From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "John Wiegley" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Let's make C-M-w in isearch yank symbol, not delete character Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2018 16:44:11 -0800 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1519346810 4593 195.159.176.226 (23 Feb 2018 00:46:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2018 00:46:50 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.91 (darwin) Cc: Emacs developers To: Daniel Colascione Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 23 01:46:46 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ep1Vd-0000iR-7F for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 Feb 2018 01:46:45 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41915 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ep1Xf-00031X-G1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 22 Feb 2018 19:48:51 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36801) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ep1WG-0002wi-FH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Feb 2018 19:48:11 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ep1Uw-0000Vb-B6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Feb 2018 19:47:24 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:50088) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ep1Tz-0007Bo-3V; Thu, 22 Feb 2018 19:45:03 -0500 Original-Received: from auth1-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.227]:41117) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA256:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1ep1Ty-0002LV-QI; Thu, 22 Feb 2018 19:45:02 -0500 Original-Received: from compute4.internal (compute4.nyi.internal [10.202.2.44]) by mailauth.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87E8F20E45; Thu, 22 Feb 2018 19:45:01 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from frontend1 ([10.202.2.160]) by compute4.internal (MEProxy); Thu, 22 Feb 2018 19:45:01 -0500 X-ME-Sender: Original-Received: from localhost (76-234-69-149.lightspeed.frokca.sbcglobal.net [76.234.69.149]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 194767E3C5; Thu, 22 Feb 2018 19:45:01 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Daniel Colascione's message of "Thu, 22 Feb 2018 11:10:25 -0800") Mail-Followup-To: Daniel Colascione , Emacs developers X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:222994 Archived-At: >>>>> "DC" == Daniel Colascione writes: DC> Right now, C-w in search-mode yanks a word from the buffer and globs it DC> onto the end of the search result. I usually want to search for symbols, DC> not words, so I end up pressing C-w multiple times. C-M-w would be the DC> natural keybinding for yanking a symbol instead of a word, but it's DC> already taken by isearch-del-char. How about moving isearch-del-char DC> somewhere else, like C-d, and making C-M-w yank a whole symbol? This makes a lot more sense to me than have C-M-w delete a character... -- John Wiegley GPG fingerprint = 4710 CF98 AF9B 327B B80F http://newartisans.com 60E1 46C4 BD1A 7AC1 4BA2