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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu>, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: RE: automatic selection during search
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 10:32:09 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f1c97a62-3a94-4472-a1dc-cc346fb9d89d@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <<barmar-B00378.13172226092013@news.eternal-september.org>>

> > > the common sequence C-@ C-s ... *should* mark the
> > > region from where you started to where the search completes.
> >
> > Yes.
> >
> > It's fine for a given user to add such behavior via a hook, if s?he wants.
> >
> > But the behavior of extending the active region during Isearch should not
> > be considered a bug.  A priori, Isearch should make no decisions about
> > changing the region activation.  Leave it up to the user.
> 
> But shouldn't the default behavior be consistent with cursor motion
> commands? Either they all should extend the region or none should.

Sorry, I don't quite understand what you are saying.  Is it not the case that
Isearch is consistent with cursor motion commands?  To me, it seems to be.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-09-26 17:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-25  6:38 automatic selection during search Bostjan Vilfan
2013-09-25 14:52 ` Peter Dyballa
2013-09-25 15:22   ` Drew Adams
2013-09-26  3:51   ` Yuri Khan
2013-09-26  8:38     ` Peter Dyballa
2013-09-26  9:08       ` Tassilo Horn
     [not found]       ` <mailman.2906.1380186548.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-09-26 14:46         ` Barry Margolin
     [not found]           ` <mailman.2924.1380210221.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-09-26 17:17             ` Barry Margolin
     [not found]               ` <mailman.2941.1380216751.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-09-26 18:53                 ` Barry Margolin
     [not found]             ` <<barmar-B00378.13172226092013@news.eternal-september.org>
2013-09-26 17:32               ` Drew Adams [this message]
2013-09-26 18:44           ` Peter Dyballa
     [not found]         ` <<barmar-A2B1E2.10465526092013@news.eternal-september.org>
2013-09-26 15:43           ` Drew Adams
2013-09-26 16:01             ` Yuri Khan
2013-09-26 17:27               ` Stefan Monnier
     [not found]   ` <mailman.2894.1380167482.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-09-30 19:59     ` Kai Grossjohann
2013-09-30 20:05       ` Barry Margolin
2013-10-01  3:56         ` Yuri Khan
2013-10-01 12:47           ` Stefan Monnier
2013-09-25 15:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found] ` <mailman.2858.1380123666.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-09-25 15:51   ` Barry Margolin
     [not found] <<CAAm34zryY6rrua7nQGHXAgHvofjTkOob9Eet9t9LcJ=Xw2bZ5A@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found] ` <<83a9j0hptk.fsf@gnu.org>
2013-09-25 16:25   ` Drew Adams
     [not found] <mailman.2845.1380113901.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-09-27  6:26 ` bjvilfan
2013-09-27 15:20   ` Drew Adams

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