From: Bug Dout <buggsy2@mailinator.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: New feature idea: isearch with autocorrection
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2012 10:02:19 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <864nnld42s.fsf@mailinator.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.7643.1346059524.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com> writes:
> It sounds useful only until you actually try something that works that
> way. Then you discover that, whenever you make a typo, your fingers
> subconsciously press Backspace and correct the typo before your brain
> even gets to realize that you “don’t have” to erase the wrong
> character.
This is a BS answer. By this reasoning--don't judge a change on its
merits, rather on how I have to change my habits--we'd still be swinging
around in trees like our ancient ancestors.
BTW the link to fuzzy.el doesn't work, must have changed very recently
because even Google points to the incorrect location.
I haven't tried the proposed change but have this question: what about
when you're searching for a string and don't make a typo, rather, the
string isn't there? Isn't that the point of generating some sort of
error, rather than silently "fixing" it for you?
--
They made a wasteland and called it peace.
~ Tacitus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-08-29 17:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-24 19:38 New feature idea: isearch with autocorrection Tom
2012-08-27 9:25 ` Yuri Khan
2012-08-27 13:07 ` Tom
2012-08-27 13:18 ` Filipp Gunbin
2012-08-27 13:23 ` Tom
2012-08-27 16:45 ` Ludwig, Mark
2012-08-27 18:13 ` Drew Adams
[not found] ` <mailman.7643.1346059524.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2012-08-29 17:02 ` Bug Dout [this message]
2012-08-29 18:50 ` Vagn Johansen
[not found] <mailman.7531.1345837128.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2012-08-25 17:45 ` Vagn Johansen
2012-08-25 18:55 ` Tom
2012-08-25 19:08 ` Tom
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