From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
To: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: isearch-allow-move [Was: isearch-allow-prefix]
Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2013 10:30:57 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130607103057.GA3199@acm.acm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ehcexw3u.fsf@mail.jurta.org>
Hi, Juri!
On Fri, Jun 07, 2013 at 09:59:49AM +0300, Juri Linkov wrote:
> > But what does it mean to C-f with a prefix arg of -1? Does it mean
> > "remove the last char from the search string"? If not, why not?
> > Or maybe a negative prefix argument would cause the command to be ignored.
> > Or maybe C-b would be allowed here to remove the last char from the
> > search string.
> Good idea. This is implemented now by this patch (cumulative to
> the previously sent one) where `C-b' or `C-u -1 C-f' removes the
> last char from the search string (`M-b' removes the last word,
> `C-M-b' removes the last expression, etc. allowing key sequences like
> `M-s C-b M-b C-M-b'), and eventually stops removing characters at the
> beginning of the current match when the search string becomes empty.
> Is this approach simple enough and intuitive?
I don't think so. What happens in a regexp search? Particularly when
the last typed characters are "\)" or "]", or "?", or there's still an
unbalanced "\(" in the string. What does M-b do then?
My gut feeling is that this proposal will add complexity rather than
reducing it, and the new facility won't be worth that cost.
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-06-07 10:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-05-20 19:59 [PATCH] Make `C-x {' and `C-x }' repeatable Gauthier Östervall
2013-05-21 9:58 ` Vitalie Spinu
2013-05-21 13:53 ` Gauthier Östervall
2013-05-21 18:34 ` Juri Linkov
2013-05-22 17:44 ` Drew Adams
2013-05-22 18:55 ` Juri Linkov
2013-05-22 21:39 ` Drew Adams
2013-05-22 22:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-05-22 23:53 ` Drew Adams
2013-05-23 0:18 ` chad
2013-05-23 16:19 ` Drew Adams
2013-05-23 16:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-05-23 19:52 ` Drew Adams
2013-05-24 4:53 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-05-24 15:55 ` Drew Adams
2013-05-24 17:00 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-05-22 21:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-05-22 22:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-05-22 23:53 ` Drew Adams
2013-05-23 22:30 ` Juri Linkov
2013-05-24 3:58 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-05-22 19:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-05-23 12:21 ` Gauthier Östervall
2013-05-23 13:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-05-23 22:04 ` Juri Linkov
2013-05-24 9:38 ` Alan Mackenzie
2013-05-24 20:31 ` Juri Linkov
2013-05-25 20:01 ` Alan Mackenzie
2013-05-25 20:40 ` Juri Linkov
2013-06-02 21:05 ` isearch-allow-prefix [Was: [PATCH] Make `C-x {' and `C-x }' repeatable] Alan Mackenzie
2013-06-04 18:03 ` Juri Linkov
2013-06-04 21:24 ` Alan Mackenzie
2013-06-05 8:23 ` Juri Linkov
2013-06-05 21:02 ` Alan Mackenzie
2013-06-06 6:07 ` isearch-allow-move [Was: isearch-allow-prefix] Juri Linkov
2013-06-06 12:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-06-06 15:07 ` Juri Linkov
2013-06-06 15:43 ` Drew Adams
2013-06-06 16:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-06-07 7:07 ` Juri Linkov
2013-06-06 20:07 ` Alan Mackenzie
2013-06-07 6:59 ` Juri Linkov
2013-06-07 10:30 ` Alan Mackenzie [this message]
2013-06-07 19:30 ` Juri Linkov
2013-06-09 20:09 ` Juri Linkov
2013-06-11 19:35 ` Juri Linkov
2013-06-07 20:04 ` Juri Linkov
2013-06-09 12:07 ` [PATCH] set-temporary-overlay-map improvement and make windresize exit on other commands Vitalie Spinu
2013-06-09 16:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-06-09 17:12 ` Vitalie Spinu
2013-06-13 20:44 ` Stefan Monnier
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