From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Isearch interaction model (was: Let's make C-M-w in isearch yank symbol, not delete character) Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2018 11:01:47 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87po4slrg4.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <2854ae14-ad4a-2fa2-ff0f-652e1501819e@dancol.org> <87fu5jh14h.fsf_-_@mail.linkov.net> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1520006407 19207 195.159.176.226 (2 Mar 2018 16:00:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2018 16:00:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: dancol@dancol.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Juri Linkov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 02 17:00:03 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ern6H-0004Ed-K6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Mar 2018 17:00:01 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36078 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ern8K-00043X-8Z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Mar 2018 11:02:08 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39377) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ern8D-00043A-En for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Mar 2018 11:02:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ern8C-0006bE-Gt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Mar 2018 11:02:01 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:59520) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ern7z-0006RB-Pg; Fri, 02 Mar 2018 11:01:47 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1ern7z-0004w7-2H; Fri, 02 Mar 2018 11:01:47 -0500 In-reply-to: <87fu5jh14h.fsf_-_@mail.linkov.net> (message from Juri Linkov on Fri, 02 Mar 2018 00:39:10 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:223223 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > I believe we could arrive to this goal gradually by adding more isearch > features to query-replace, and query-replace features to isearch, > i.e. like digging a tunnel from both ends to meet in the middle. I don't think we should try to go in that direction. Query Replace and search are fundamentally different ideas and trying to make them converge would make them incoherent. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See https://stallman.org/skype.html.