From: Damien Wyart <damien.wyart@gmail.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: isearch and region ?
Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2017 10:13:53 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADJQGJfdEE0ORwYG3V2OoV9YYtZPW3ouqFESqNNiJBLnnCyf6Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DC555F77-DDAD-42E0-B2E3-0964D9548C88@gmail.com>
Hi,
Even if it is true from a design perspective, there are alternative
solutions, as you can read here:
https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/31320/selecting-i-e-as-the-region-the-current-match-in-incremental-search
Regards
Damien
On Tue, Nov 7, 2017 at 8:39 AM, Jean-Christophe Helary
<jean.christophe.helary@gmail.com> wrote:
> I would like to know why isearch has been designed so that it does not create a region with the matching string. The thing that appears in the buffer looks like a region, but it is not, and that keeps the user from immediately interacting with the matching string (deleting, overwriting, killing or yanking, etc.)
>
> Jean-Christophe Helary
> -----------------------------------------------
> @brandelune http://mac4translators.blogspot.com
>
>
>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-11-07 9:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-11-07 7:39 isearch and region ? Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-11-07 8:31 ` Yuri Khan
2017-11-07 9:08 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-11-07 15:26 ` Drew Adams
2017-11-07 15:54 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-11-07 9:13 ` Damien Wyart [this message]
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