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From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Should ending successful Isearch with C-g restore the relative window position?
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 14:29:40 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7E5B63603B074626914E5DAEB90E738B@us.oracle.com> (raw)

In a buffer with multiple occurrences of "the", position the window so that one
of the occurrences is near the top of the window.  Now do C-s the C-s C-s...

This successfully visits occurrences of "the", and if there are enough of them
then it scrolls the window to do this.  Now hit C-g to exit Isearch.

Point is moved back to its starting position (good).  But now that position,
instead of being near the window top, is in the center of the window.
`goto-char' has, in effect, recentered the point in the window.

To me, this is a misfeature.  I would much rather have the original window
position, as well as point, restored.  That is, I would rather see the cursor in
the same relative window location as it was before searching.

Is there some advantage of the current behavior that I'm missing?  Am I the only
one who thinks that restoring the window position along with point would be
better?




             reply	other threads:[~2013-01-14 22:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-14 22:29 Drew Adams [this message]
2013-01-14 23:07 ` Should ending successful Isearch with C-g restore the relative window position? Dani Moncayo
2013-01-14 23:17   ` Drew Adams
2013-01-15  3:49     ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-15 14:58       ` Drew Adams
2013-01-15 15:09         ` Alan Mackenzie
2013-01-15 16:22           ` Should ending successful Isearch with C-g restore the relativewindow position? Drew Adams
2013-01-15 16:36             ` Alan Mackenzie
2013-01-15 16:54               ` Should ending successful Isearch with C-g restore therelativewindow position? Drew Adams
2013-01-15 16:34         ` Should ending successful Isearch with C-g restore the relative window position? Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-15 16:58           ` Drew Adams
2013-01-15 17:10             ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-15 17:59               ` Drew Adams
2013-01-15 18:25                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-15 22:04               ` Drew Adams
2013-01-16 16:55                 ` Should ending successful Isearch with C-g restore therelative " Drew Adams
2013-01-16 21:29                   ` Should ending successful Isearch with C-g restore the relative " Juri Linkov
2013-01-16 22:16                     ` Drew Adams
2013-01-17 21:35                       ` Juri Linkov
2013-01-15  9:52   ` Juri Linkov

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