From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bug Dout Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: New feature idea: isearch with autocorrection Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2012 10:02:19 -0700 Organization: DSL Extreme Message-ID: <864nnld42s.fsf@mailinator.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=gb2312 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1346259923 22961 80.91.229.3 (29 Aug 2012 17:05:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2012 17:05:23 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 29 19:05:24 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1T6lhe-0000cw-Rh for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Aug 2012 19:05:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42060 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T6lhc-0000Mw-64 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Aug 2012 13:05:16 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!npeer01.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!post01.iad.highwinds-media.com!newsfe16.iad.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.93 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:JyFFLzfwT+IyiyZYZYi42sTwZ2g= Original-Lines: 22 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse2@dslextreme.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2012 17:02:19 UTC X-Received-Bytes: 1751 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:194232 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:86579 Archived-At: Yuri Khan writes: > It sounds useful only until you actually try something that works that > way. Then you discover that, whenever you make a typo, your fingers > subconsciously press Backspace and correct the typo before your brain > even gets to realize that you ¡°don¡¯t have¡± to erase the wrong > character. This is a BS answer. By this reasoning--don't judge a change on its merits, rather on how I have to change my habits--we'd still be swinging around in trees like our ancient ancestors. BTW the link to fuzzy.el doesn't work, must have changed very recently because even Google points to the incorrect location. I haven't tried the proposed change but have this question: what about when you're searching for a string and don't make a typo, rather, the string isn't there? Isn't that the point of generating some sort of error, rather than silently "fixing" it for you? -- They made a wasteland and called it peace. ~ Tacitus