From: Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org>
To: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
Cc: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Let's make C-M-w in isearch yank symbol, not delete character
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2018 13:43:43 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2854ae14-ad4a-2fa2-ff0f-652e1501819e@dancol.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87po4slrg4.fsf@mail.linkov.net>
On 02/25/2018 12:55 PM, Juri Linkov wrote:
>> Right now, C-w in search-mode yanks a word from the buffer and globs it
>> onto the end of the search result. I usually want to search for symbols,
>> not words, so I end up pressing C-w multiple times. C-M-w would be the
>> natural keybinding for yanking a symbol instead of a word, but it's already
>> taken by isearch-del-char. How about moving isearch-del-char somewhere
>> else, like C-d, and making C-M-w yank a whole symbol?
>
> But isn't the prefix 'C-M-' usually reserved for keys that operate on
> whole expressions, not just symbols?
Good point. I don't have a strong objection to using forward-sexp
instead of forward-symbol. It'll still DWIM in the cases I care about.
> Fortunately, it's easy to add support for yanking an expression:
> in addition to the existing option 'edit' of 'search-exit-option'
> we can also provide a new option 'move' that will sync the current
> search string with the new position in the buffer after moving point
> using all standard motion commands, e.g. `C-f' will add the next char
> to the end of the search string, `C-M-f' will add the next expression,
> `M-f' will add the next word, `C-b' will delete text from the end of
> the search string, etc. Here is the implementation:
Thanks. I'm looking for ways we can tweak the existing default
interaction model, but I think we should take a broader look at how
isearch works in the first place. IMHO, find-and-replace should be more
closely integrated into isearch, we should have a unified history for
regular and regex search, and case-sensitivity, symbol-granularity,
regex mode, etc. should all be independently toggleable peer flags.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-02-25 21:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-02-22 19:10 Let's make C-M-w in isearch yank symbol, not delete character Daniel Colascione
2018-02-23 0:44 ` John Wiegley
2018-02-25 20:55 ` Juri Linkov
2018-02-25 21:12 ` H. Dieter Wilhelm
2018-02-25 21:43 ` Daniel Colascione [this message]
2018-03-01 22:39 ` Isearch interaction model (was: Let's make C-M-w in isearch yank symbol, not delete character) Juri Linkov
2018-03-02 0:12 ` Isearch interaction model Daniel Colascione
2018-03-02 0:19 ` Davis Herring
2018-03-02 0:26 ` dancol
2018-03-03 22:50 ` Juri Linkov
2018-03-03 23:46 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2018-03-04 21:42 ` Juri Linkov
2018-03-08 22:55 ` Juri Linkov
2018-03-04 15:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-04 17:13 ` Daniel Colascione
2018-03-04 17:26 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2018-03-04 21:58 ` Juri Linkov
2018-03-04 22:03 ` Daniel Colascione
2018-03-05 3:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-05 21:33 ` Juri Linkov
2018-03-04 21:50 ` Juri Linkov
2018-03-06 21:47 ` Juri Linkov
2018-03-06 22:22 ` dancol
2018-03-07 22:30 ` Juri Linkov
2018-03-07 22:55 ` dancol
2018-03-08 22:41 ` Juri Linkov
2018-03-09 11:01 ` Daniel Colascione
2018-03-10 21:20 ` Juri Linkov
2018-03-10 21:36 ` Daniel Colascione
2018-03-11 21:58 ` Juri Linkov
2018-03-12 3:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-12 8:23 ` Daniel Colascione
2018-03-12 9:29 ` Yuri Khan
2018-03-02 16:01 ` Isearch interaction model (was: Let's make C-M-w in isearch yank symbol, not delete character) Richard Stallman
2018-02-26 3:26 ` Let's make C-M-w in isearch yank symbol, not delete character Eli Zaretskii
2018-02-27 21:28 ` Juri Linkov
2018-02-28 3:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-01 22:32 ` Juri Linkov
2018-03-02 8:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-03 22:34 ` Juri Linkov
2018-03-04 15:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-04 21:36 ` Juri Linkov
2018-03-05 3:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-05 15:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-05 21:25 ` Juri Linkov
2018-03-06 3:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-06 22:07 ` Juri Linkov
2018-03-10 11:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-10 18:34 ` John Shahid
2018-03-10 21:15 ` Juri Linkov
2018-03-11 2:37 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-03-11 21:52 ` Juri Linkov
2018-03-12 17:38 ` John Shahid
2018-03-12 18:24 ` Alan Mackenzie
2018-03-12 21:19 ` Juri Linkov
2018-03-12 21:36 ` Juri Linkov
2018-03-11 3:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-11 14:32 ` Herring, Davis
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