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From: Miles Bader <miles@lsi.nec.co.jp>
Subject: @#$! new behavior of C-b & C-f in i-search
Date: 18 May 2004 13:51:11 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <buo8yfqmj7k.fsf@mctpc71.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp> (raw)

I originally liked the idea of `C-b' & `C-f' in i-search doing special
stuff, but ever since this was installed, it's been driving me batty --
I apparently use those keystrokes to exit i-search _way_ more than I
thought.

The behavior is especially insidious because following scenario happens
really often:

I'll do an i-search, try to exit it by hitting C-b a few times expecting
the cursor to move, and when it _doesn't_ move, I'll realize `Oh, it's
the new behavior' and try to exit i-search by hitting RET -- but that
doesn't work, because hitting C-b has emptied the search string (without
moving the search location), so RET drops me into the non-incremental
Search: prompt, and when I then hit C-g to try to _really_ exit, it
aborts the search, and warps me back to where I began!

At that point I can't even just redo the search by hitting `C-s C-s',
because the aborted i-search didn't save it.

Grrrrrrrr....

-Miles
-- 
`...the Soviet Union was sliding in to an economic collapse so comprehensive
 that in the end its factories produced not goods but bads: finished products
 less valuable than the raw materials they were made from.'  [The Economist]

             reply	other threads:[~2004-05-18  4:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-05-18  4:51 Miles Bader [this message]
2004-05-18  0:15 ` @#$! new behavior of C-b & C-f in i-search Karl Fogel
2004-05-18  6:05 ` Juri Linkov
2004-05-18  7:06 ` Kai Grossjohann
2004-05-18  7:16   ` David Kastrup
2004-05-19  5:22   ` Karl Eichwalder
2004-05-20  6:03     ` Juri Linkov
2004-05-20  7:29       ` David Kastrup
2004-05-20  8:35         ` Kenichi Handa
2004-05-20 10:48           ` David Kastrup
2004-05-20 11:31             ` Kenichi Handa
2004-05-20 17:34         ` Kevin Rodgers
2004-05-20 18:02           ` David Kastrup
2004-05-20 20:08             ` Peter Lee
2004-05-24  8:48               ` Juri Linkov
2004-06-07  6:43                 ` Juri Linkov
2004-06-07 19:17                   ` Richard Stallman
2004-06-11  8:17                     ` Juri Linkov
2004-06-11  8:35                       ` Kim F. Storm
2004-06-11  8:48                       ` Alan Mackenzie
2004-06-12  1:50                       ` Richard Stallman
2004-05-18 12:27 ` Robert J. Chassell
2004-05-19  1:26 ` Richard Stallman
2004-05-19  6:32   ` @#$! new behavior of C-b & C-f in i-searchi Alan Mackenzie
2004-05-19  8:33   ` @#$! new behavior of C-b & C-f in i-search Juri Linkov
2004-05-19  9:06     ` Miles Bader
2004-05-19  9:32       ` Juri Linkov

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