From: Uday S Reddy <uDOTsDOTreddy@cs.bham.ac.uk>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Rapidly navigating buffers using search
Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2010 22:01:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <i1an2l$f72$1@north.jnrs.ja.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9dc07ed9-f6f1-4ac5-949a-5b97368cc32a@n19g2000prf.googlegroups.com>
On 7/7/2010 3:28 PM, Xah Lee wrote:
> same here. I started to use emacs daily since 1998, and i didn't
> realize that Enter will exit the search and leave the cursor at the
> current location untill 2007 or so. I've always just used left/right
> arrow. (and a year or two later, i also found out that it is right in
> the manual. These happened only when i started to get more involved in
> writing a emacs tutorial)
You are unnecessarily demoting yourself, Xah Lee.
The original Emacs didn't use RET to end an incremental search. My neurons
tell me that it was ESC. Typing a RET in the middle of an isearch meant that
you wanted to search for a newline character. But the manual said that you
could basically type any Emacs command to end the search. Since the ESC keys
moved further and further away from the reachable keyboard real estate, people
used various alternatives. C-g was the most common.
The use of RET to end an incremental search is a relatively new feature,
introduced in Emacs 19. The NEWS.19 file says:
"**** The character to terminate an incremental search is now RET.
This is for compatibility with the way most other arguments are read.
To search for a newline in an incremental search, type LFD (also known
as C-j)."
You are not expected to re-read the manual after every new release, but you are
expected to read the NEWS file. Since we recently had a
several-hundred-messages-long debate on the virtues of reading the NEWS file, I
will just refer you to it.
Sorry for foiling this opportunity for you to attack the Emacs manual one more
time.
Cheers,
Uday
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-10 21:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-07 6:43 Rapidly navigating buffers using search Jonathan Groll
2010-07-07 6:52 ` Aidan Gauland
2010-07-07 6:54 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2010-07-07 7:40 ` Qiang Guo
2010-07-07 8:01 ` Jonathan Groll
2010-07-07 8:45 ` Andrea Crotti
2010-07-07 9:33 ` Deniz Dogan
2010-07-07 10:25 ` Jonathan Groll
[not found] ` <mailman.11.1278498387.2272.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
[not found] ` <9dc07ed9-f6f1-4ac5-949a-5b97368cc32a@n19g2000prf.googlegroups.com>
2010-07-08 2:28 ` despen
[not found] ` <87mxu22rbc.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>
2010-07-08 17:59 ` bolega
2010-07-08 22:11 ` WYSIWYG and usability (was: " Peter Flynn
2010-07-08 20:42 ` despen
2010-07-09 21:18 ` Fixing antediluvianisms in Emacs' UI Ilya Zakharevich
2010-07-10 14:22 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2010-07-09 21:39 ` Rapidly navigating buffers using search Ilya Zakharevich
2010-07-10 18:13 ` Xah Lee
2010-07-10 23:25 ` B. T. Raven
2010-07-11 4:47 ` Xah Lee
2010-07-11 13:31 ` B. T. Raven
2010-07-11 16:13 ` David Kastrup
2010-07-11 21:58 ` B. T. Raven
[not found] ` <873cd6b9-8a85-478f-9943-c3ce09eb62c6@n8g2000prh.googlegroups.com>
2010-07-11 21:50 ` B. T. Raven
2010-07-10 21:01 ` Uday S Reddy [this message]
2010-07-07 10:54 ` Aidan Gauland
[not found] <mailman.0.1278485069.2272.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-07-07 8:43 ` Stefan Kamphausen
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