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From: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
To: ams@gnu.org
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: isearch and M-y/C-y
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:03:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k5b22br7.fsf@jurta.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1226945661.613276.9583.nullmailer@null> (Alfred M. Szmidt's message of "Mon, 17 Nov 2008 19:14:21 +0100")

>    > Can we please make it so that C-y yanks text in isearch (when
>    > doing C-s), and M-y can do whatever C-y is doing now...
>    >
>    > The current default is not very friendly, and not really what
>    > you'd exepct C-y to do..
>
>    I'm afraid we can't change old traditional isearch keybindings.
>    What we can do is to create a new isearch submode with better
>    keybindings.
>
> Why not?  Just because they are old does not mean that they are set in
> stone, we have done such changes before as well.

Given that we rebind C-y to yank text in isearch (`isearch-yank-kill'),
can you find a good keybinding for `isearch-yank-line' that is
currently on `C-y'?  (It would be good to reserve `M-y' for a new
command `isearch-yank-pop' by analogy with `M-y' `yank-pop').

-- 
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/




  reply	other threads:[~2008-11-18 22:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-16 15:31 isearch and M-y/C-y Alfred M. Szmidt
2008-11-16 22:18 ` Juri Linkov
2008-11-17 18:14   ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2008-11-18 22:03     ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2008-11-18 22:59       ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2008-11-19 12:51         ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-11-19 15:24           ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2008-11-19 23:18             ` Juri Linkov
2008-11-20 17:14               ` mail
2008-11-20 17:43                 ` Eric Schulte
2008-11-21  0:50                   ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-11-21 23:16                     ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-11-20 14:26             ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-11-20  1:05       ` Andrew W. Nosenko
2008-11-20 15:02         ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-11-20 15:40           ` Andreas Schwab
2008-11-21  2:27             ` Miles Bader
2008-11-21  4:09               ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-11-21 23:15               ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-11-19 13:36 ` Teemu Likonen
2008-11-19 15:21   ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2008-11-19 15:31     ` Andreas Schwab
2008-11-19 15:39     ` Teemu Likonen
2008-11-19 15:46       ` Alfred M. Szmidt

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