From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: `isearch-allow-scroll' - a misnomer and a bad design Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 10:10:10 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20110909215255.GD2733@acm.acm> <7002A9DA9A804F0B9F6F251FD3A2B263@us.oracle.com> <20110911103940.GA3246@acm.acm> <3C4B7E318EB04AE4B7DB9FD0E4C67629@us.oracle.com> <20110911173012.GA3088@acm.acm> <20110912093651.GA3249@acm.acm> <20110913142732.GB3081@acm.acm> <7E2EE144B11D413583E1E659CDE15186@us.oracle.com> <8739g0vyuy.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <4E6FF63A.4070604@gmail.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1316009439 3252 80.91.229.12 (14 Sep 2011 14:10:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 14:10:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: juri@jurta.org, acm@muc.de, dan.colascione@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Drew Adams" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 14 16:10:34 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1R3qAb-0003KO-D7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Sep 2011 16:10:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47576 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R3qAa-0006u0-RZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Sep 2011 10:10:32 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:46414) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R3qAT-0006tf-HV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Sep 2011 10:10:30 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R3qAO-0004Xc-AL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Sep 2011 10:10:25 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:51531) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R3qAO-0004XW-2A for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Sep 2011 10:10:20 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R3qAE-0004jd-GT; Wed, 14 Sep 2011 10:10:10 -0400 In-reply-to: (drew.adams@oracle.com) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.10 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:144020 Archived-At: It is not an issue of how many "ways to exit isearch" there are. It is an issue of how many commands you need to remember WON'T exit the search. The idea of isearch is that control characters exit, except for a short list of a few. But that list has been growing. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. Use free telephony http://directory.fsf.org/category/tel/