From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Interacting with minibuffer Date: Sun, 23 May 2021 09:38:01 +0300 Message-ID: <83k0nqj6pi.fsf@gnu.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="3325"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun May 23 08:39:28 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lkhln-0000f7-5J for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 23 May 2021 08:39:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35426 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lkhll-0004uZ-Fj for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 23 May 2021 02:39:25 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:36946) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lkhkP-0004uQ-Ic for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 23 May 2021 02:38:01 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:54184) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lkhkP-00039B-Au for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 23 May 2021 02:38:01 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:1428 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lkhkN-0001qB-J3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 23 May 2021 02:38:01 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from =?utf-8?Q?S?= =?utf-8?Q?=C3=A9bastien?= Le Callonnec on Sat, 22 May 2021 19:45:55 +0100) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:130120 Archived-At: > From: Sébastien Le Callonnec > Date: Sat, 22 May 2021 19:45:55 +0100 > > I use emacs built on the master branch. The new behaviour of minibuffer > keeps tripping me, to the point where I feel like I am fighting with it, and end up going into an M-g frenzy. > > Those are typically difficult to reproduce, but I found an example where > I am at a loss as to what I am supposed to do to get the right > behaviour. > > Let's say I have a buffer open, and I want to do a `search-forward' with > a string already in my kill ring, so C-s, I get into the minibuffer, > C-y, and it turns out that the string is not present in the buffer. At > that point my reflex is to try to edit the search string: arrow keys end > up moving the cursor in the buffer, and the command disappears from the > minibuffer; backspace deletes the whole search string. What you describe is how C-s (a.k.a. isearch-forward, not search-forward) always worked: C-s doesn't get you into the minibuffer. So maybe you didn't describe the full sequence of commands you typed?