From: "Ludwig, Mark" <ludwig.mark@siemens.com>
To: Tom <adatgyujto@gmail.com>,
"help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: New feature idea: isearch with autocorrection
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2012 16:45:25 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <BC5672F8AD4C054BAF167C9801500D1AB0ADE950@USSLMMBX003.net.plm.eds.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <loom.20120827T152014-851@post.gmane.org>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom
> Sent: Monday, August 27, 2012 8:23 AM
> To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: New feature idea: isearch with autocorrection
>
> Filipp Gunbin <fgunbin <at> fastmail.fm> writes:
>
> >
> > On 27/08/2012 17:07, Tom wrote:
> > >
> > > Isearch should have a binding which deletes all the non-matching
> > > characters from the search string. C-Backspace can be a good candidate
> > > for that.
> >
> > It already has - `C-g'.
> >
>
> Cool, thanks. It never occurred to me to use C-g to fix the search
> string. It's not a very intuitive binding, because it's usually
> associated with aborting operations, not with correcting things.
I learned about this so long ago that my fingers sometimes do it without conscious thought, but I somehow _do_ associate this as an 'abort' of sorts: it's aborting the failing search, returning me to the successful search I had started. (I also agree it's not exactly intuitive, because the I-search itself continues. Pressing Control-G during a successful I-search aborts that too, of course, and at that point, there is no search running.)
Hope this helps,
Mark
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-08-27 16:45 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 [this message]
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
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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