From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Welsh Duggan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] (Or "question"...) isearch-kill-found Date: Sun, 30 May 2010 23:30:34 -0400 Message-ID: <87bpbwoihx.fsf@maru.md5i.com> References: <87iq65v61m.fsf@gnu.org> <9BE2778D1026451087EED8E656851390@us.oracle.com> <4C02E48A.7080305@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1275276652 26733 80.91.229.12 (31 May 2010 03:30:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 03:30:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Christoph , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Lennart Borgman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 31 05:30:50 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 1OIviD-0007LY-Ib for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 31 May 2010 05:30:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47749 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OIviC-0007tJ-W0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 30 May 2010 23:30:49 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=54067 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OIvi7-0007q1-1P for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 30 May 2010 23:30:43 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OIvi5-0002HT-Gx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 30 May 2010 23:30:42 -0400 Original-Received: from md5i.com ([75.151.244.229]:57709 helo=maru.md5i.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OIvi5-0002Gm-EC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 30 May 2010 23:30:41 -0400 Original-Received: from md5i by maru.md5i.com with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1OIvhy-0000nl-Rg; Sun, 30 May 2010 23:30:34 -0400 In-Reply-To: (Lennart Borgman's message of "Mon, 31 May 2010 00:40:03 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) 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:125390 Archived-At: Lennart Borgman writes: > On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 12:19 AM, Christoph w= rote: >> >> In that same thread Davis Herring had an idea that sounds interesting and >> useful to me: >> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-07/msg00492.html >> >>> =A0Thinking about this, I realize >>> =A0that I would get almost all the utility of this idea with just one >>> command >>> =A0added to isearch which meant "exit and move point to start of match"= , or >>> =A0(closer to your idea) a command which meant "exit and drop mark at s= tart >>> =A0of match" in place of your toggle. =A0WDOT? >> >> >> I think a function "exit and drop mark at start of match" would be very >> useful. > > > Would it disturb if instead mark was always set to start of match? It would. I am often in a situation where I am at the beginning of a construct, use C-s to find the end of the construct, and then C-w or M-w to cut or copy it. I use this behavior frequently, especially when writing macros. --=20 Michael Welsh Duggan (md5i@md5i.com)