From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'David Karr'" <davidmichaelkarr@gmail.com>, <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: How to backspace in isearch-forward-regexp
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:48:43 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1996EDCA96DD4CE7A384E0CA70105E58@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <088b7357-f5c6-4682-934a-3f8af35190e8@o7g2000yqb.googlegroups.com>
> After installing GNU Emacs on some new boxes recently, I finally
> realized one thing that is behaving differently than what I'm used to.
>
> When I'm using isearch-forward-regexp, I can type letter by letter,
> and it will update the first match found. I used to be able to hit
> backspace while typing to remove the last character entered in the
> search string, in case I made a mistake entering the string.
>
> Now, when I hit backspace, it exits isearch-forward-regexp and sends
> the backspace directly to the buffer I was searching in, usually
> deleting the previous character at the end of the last match.
>
> I have a feeling this must have something to do with the binding of
> the backspace key in Cygwin.
>
> I'm using Emacs 23.0.92.1 on Cygwin 1.5.
Sounds like you should file a bug. But you might want to get the latest pretest
first, to see if the problem is already fixed.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-14 22:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-14 21:50 How to backspace in isearch-forward-regexp David Karr
2009-07-14 22:48 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2009-07-14 22:59 ` Peter Dyballa
2009-07-15 10:25 ` Bernardo
2009-07-15 17:20 ` KARR, DAVID (ATTCINW)
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2009-07-14 18:11 KARR, DAVID (ATTCINW)
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