From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: [PATCH] (Or "question"...) isearch-kill-found Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 21:43:46 -0700 Message-ID: <7F4A9988213544AEA1478E941C7E2109@us.oracle.com> References: <87vda59rby.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <87vda45euq.fsf@stupidchicken.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1275367504 24772 80.91.229.12 (1 Jun 2010 04:45:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2010 04:45:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 'Juri Linkov' , 'Chong Yidong' , 'Deniz Dogan' , 'Emacs-Devel devel' To: "'Stefan Monnier'" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 01 06:45:02 2010 connect(): No such file or directory Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OJJLZ-0005xp-2T for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Jun 2010 06:45:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44938 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OJJLY-0000Gd-Kd for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Jun 2010 00:45:00 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=41569 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OJJLR-0000GY-Bt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Jun 2010 00:44:55 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OJJLQ-0004PC-57 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Jun 2010 00:44:53 -0400 Original-Received: from rcsinet10.oracle.com ([148.87.113.121]:52232) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OJJLQ-0004OQ-0F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Jun 2010 00:44:52 -0400 Original-Received: from acsinet15.oracle.com (acsinet15.oracle.com [141.146.126.227]) by rcsinet10.oracle.com (Switch-3.4.2/Switch-3.4.1) with ESMTP id o514iius030158 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Tue, 1 Jun 2010 04:44:46 GMT Original-Received: from acsmt355.oracle.com (acsmt355.oracle.com [141.146.40.155]) by acsinet15.oracle.com (Switch-3.4.2/Switch-3.4.1) with ESMTP id o5149vJN021132; Tue, 1 Jun 2010 04:44:43 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt005.oracle.com by acsmt353.oracle.com with ESMTP id 311997491275367438; Mon, 31 May 2010 21:43:58 -0700 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/10.175.236.222) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Mon, 31 May 2010 21:43:57 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: Thread-Index: AcsBN/GyBKTrFFseSeuxNOb/3mk99AADLK0A X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.5931 X-Auth-Type: Internal IP X-Source-IP: acsinet15.oracle.com [141.146.126.227] X-CT-RefId: str=0001.0A090206.4C04903F.00FE:SCFMA922111,ss=1,fgs=0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:125416 Archived-At: > >> Of course I also dislike it because it adds a state. As for simply > >> providing a variable to change the behavior (without a > >> key-binding to change it), that's another solution, indeed. > >> Maybe not a bad one. > > > Why is not having a key to toggle the variable better? > > Because keys are in very short supply. Not really, for a keymap such as isearch. > > It is the variable that "adds a state", not the toggle key. > > No: if the variable never changes, then it doesn't contribute > to state. ;-) If a variable (in the usual programming sense, not in the math sense) never changes, then it's not very variable. Why have a variable in that case?