* Documentation bug for isearch?
@ 2007-01-30 21:00 Matthieu Lemerre
2007-01-31 6:00 ` Kevin Rodgers
0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Matthieu Lemerre @ 2007-01-30 21:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: bug-gnu-emacs
Hello,
I use Emacs for more than 7 year and I just found out that C-s sets
the mark automatically when you start an isearch. The problem with
Emacs is that it's so long to use it optimally, that you get used to
bad automatisms :)
This fact is not written in the documentation string for
isearch-forward; there is a hint "Mark saved where search started",
but I tend not to see them using emacs in full-screen;
I think I would have found it earlier if I could have read it in the
doc string of isearch; my suggestion is to put it in the doc string.
Thanks,
Matthieu
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 2+ messages in thread
* Re: Documentation bug for isearch?
2007-01-30 21:00 Documentation bug for isearch? Matthieu Lemerre
@ 2007-01-31 6:00 ` Kevin Rodgers
0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Kevin Rodgers @ 2007-01-31 6:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: bug-gnu-emacs
Matthieu Lemerre wrote:
> I use Emacs for more than 7 year and I just found out that C-s sets
> the mark automatically when you start an isearch. The problem with
> Emacs is that it's so long to use it optimally, that you get used to
> bad automatisms :)
>
> This fact is not written in the documentation string for
> isearch-forward; there is a hint "Mark saved where search started",
> but I tend not to see them using emacs in full-screen;
>
> I think I would have found it earlier if I could have read it in the
> doc string of isearch; my suggestion is to put it in the doc string.
Actually, the mark is set when you _exit_ isearch, as explained in the
Emacs manual:
,----
| When you exit the incremental search, it sets the mark where point
| _was_ before the search. That is convenient for moving back there. In
| Transient Mark mode, incremental search sets the mark without
| activating it, and does so only if the mark is not already active.
`----
I think that text is too long to include in the doc string of the
various isearch commands, and shortening it would leave out the really
useful information.
--
Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 2+ messages in thread
end of thread, other threads:[~2007-01-31 6:00 UTC | newest]
Thread overview: 2+ messages (download: mbox.gz follow: Atom feed
-- links below jump to the message on this page --
2007-01-30 21:00 Documentation bug for isearch? Matthieu Lemerre
2007-01-31 6:00 ` Kevin Rodgers
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this external index
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.