From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Drew Adams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: automatic selection during search Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 10:32:09 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: < > <> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1380216759 24110 80.91.229.3 (26 Sep 2013 17:32:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 17:32:39 +0000 (UTC) To: Barry Margolin , help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 26 19:32:41 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VPFQe-0005pd-Sn for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Sep 2013 19:32:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59149 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VPFQe-0002QY-Am for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Sep 2013 13:32:40 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38357) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VPFQM-0002PU-7S for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Sep 2013 13:32:30 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VPFQD-00030X-Ed for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Sep 2013 13:32:21 -0400 Original-Received: from userp1040.oracle.com ([156.151.31.81]:37346) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VPFQD-00030R-7v for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Sep 2013 13:32:13 -0400 Original-Received: from ucsinet21.oracle.com (ucsinet21.oracle.com [156.151.31.93]) by userp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.3.1/Sentrion-MTA-4.3.1) with ESMTP id r8QHWAF4005152 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Thu, 26 Sep 2013 17:32:11 GMT Original-Received: from userz7022.oracle.com (userz7022.oracle.com [156.151.31.86]) by ucsinet21.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id r8QHWAjD024967 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 26 Sep 2013 17:32:10 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt110.oracle.com (abhmt110.oracle.com [141.146.116.62]) by userz7022.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id r8QHW9rk010062; Thu, 26 Sep 2013 17:32:09 GMT In-Reply-To: <> X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Oracle Beehive Extensions for Outlook 2.0.1.8 (707110) [OL 12.0.6680.5000 (x86)] X-Source-IP: ucsinet21.oracle.com [156.151.31.93] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 156.151.31.81 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:93626 Archived-At: > > > 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 wan= ts. > > > > But the behavior of extending the active region during Isearch should n= ot > > be considered a bug. A priori, Isearch should make no decisions about > > changing the region activation. Leave it up to the user. >=20 > 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 th= at Isearch is consistent with cursor motion commands? To me, it seems to be.