From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 7700@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#7700: 24.0.50; C-y binding withing Isearch mode
Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2010 21:09:28 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=F-R1D5CoVTVQpBMFTgyDMznEx2owTqjoTmxu8@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvwrmxpra8.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 8:52 PM, Stefan Monnier
<monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>>>>> I suggest instead that any standard forward movement command while in
>>>>> isearch forward mode should select the text to grab WITHOUT any
>>>>> prefix key.
>>> That might be a good choice, but:
>>> - we lack experimental evidence for that.
>>> - it would probably be too big a change to have that as a default behavior.
>> IMHO, that proposal would make text grabbing in Isearch (a) More
>> powerful (you could use every movement command to grab text), and (b)
>> easier/simpler (you already know the movement commands).
>
> Compared to the use of a prefix, there is an important difference: the
> prefix tells isearch that the next command is a movement command, so it
> can be used with *any* command (and can lead to surprises if the command
> is not a movement command), whereas in the absence of a prefix, isearch
> would need to know which commands are "movement commands", and this
> knowledge would always tend to be partial, so it will fail with
> some commands.
Forgot to mention that. There is same problem with extending the
selected region. cua-mode solves this by attaching properties to
movement commands. I think that is a good and flexible solution
(though there could perhaps be custom support for it etc).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-25 20:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-21 19:06 bug#7700: 24.0.50; C-y binding withing Isearch mode Dani Moncayo
2010-12-21 21:26 ` Dani Moncayo
2010-12-23 15:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-12-23 16:09 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-12-23 16:46 ` Leo
2010-12-23 17:05 ` Andreas Schwab
2010-12-23 22:39 ` Leo
2010-12-23 17:14 ` Alan Mackenzie
2010-12-24 2:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-12-24 3:25 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-12-24 11:39 ` Dani Moncayo
2010-12-24 12:13 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-12-24 13:34 ` Dani Moncayo
2010-12-25 2:38 ` Juri Linkov
2010-12-25 4:06 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-12-25 11:15 ` Dani Moncayo
2010-12-25 19:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-12-25 20:09 ` Lennart Borgman [this message]
2010-12-27 22:15 ` Alan Mackenzie
2010-12-27 22:36 ` Drew Adams
2010-12-28 0:14 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-12-28 0:51 ` Drew Adams
2010-12-28 1:34 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-12-28 5:43 ` Drew Adams
2010-12-26 23:13 ` Andrew W. Nosenko
2010-12-26 23:33 ` Andrew W. Nosenko
2010-12-23 17:28 ` Drew Adams
2010-12-23 19:23 ` Alan Mackenzie
2010-12-23 19:30 ` Dani Moncayo
2010-12-23 20:48 ` Drew Adams
2010-12-23 20:58 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-12-23 21:28 ` Alan Mackenzie
2010-12-23 22:28 ` Drew Adams
2010-12-23 23:08 ` Dani Moncayo
2010-12-25 2:34 ` Juri Linkov
2010-12-25 4:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-12-23 20:46 ` Drew Adams
2010-12-23 19:48 ` Juri Linkov
2011-05-16 15:11 ` bug#7700: 24.0.50; C-y binding in " Dani Moncayo
2011-05-16 15:42 ` Stefan Monnier
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