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From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: 6232@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#6232: Suggestion for isearch: in backward search yank to front of search string
Date: Fri, 21 May 2010 23:19:22 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTiniMB6jhAfZVhy3--Fi8mwZ3bk0aqzkIU-WbT-4@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1OFZTU-0007o9-4Y@fencepost.gnu.org>

On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 11:09 PM, Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> wrote:
> In backward search, self-inserting characters add to the end of the
> search string.  To make yank add at the beginning would be
> inconsistent


Both you and Andreas think that yanking at the beginning for backward
isearch is inconsistent.

If you both feel that way I tend to agree (since this is a usability problem).


> and not useful.


However if it is useful is a quite different thing. I have use cases
for it. I can't imagine that other people does not have it so I assume
this is not really what you (or Andreas) wanted to say.





  reply	other threads:[~2010-05-21 21:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-20 16:09 bug#6232: Suggestion for isearch: in backward search yank to front of search string Lennart Borgman
2010-05-21  0:09 ` Juri Linkov
2010-05-21  1:18   ` Lennart Borgman
2010-05-21  8:34     ` Andreas Schwab
2010-05-21 18:31       ` Lennart Borgman
2012-02-22  2:40       ` Glenn Morris
2010-05-21 21:09     ` Richard Stallman
2010-05-21 21:19       ` Lennart Borgman [this message]
2010-05-21  8:27 ` Andreas Schwab
2010-05-21  9:54   ` Leo

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