From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Dani Moncayo <dmoncayo@gmail.com>
Cc: 7700@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#7700: 24.0.50; C-y binding withing Isearch mode
Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2010 14:52:49 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvwrmxpra8.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikXt683g2a5HwvZikxM35X-RahVPxTMbq3M7cmg@mail.gmail.com> (Dani Moncayo's message of "Sat, 25 Dec 2010 12:15:00 +0100")
>>>> I suggest instead that any standard forward movement command while in
>>>> isearch forward mode should select the text to grab WITHOUT any
>>>> prefix key.
>> That might be a good choice, but:
>> - we lack experimental evidence for that.
>> - it would probably be too big a change to have that as a default behavior.
> IMHO, that proposal would make text grabbing in Isearch (a) More
> powerful (you could use every movement command to grab text), and (b)
> easier/simpler (you already know the movement commands).
Compared to the use of a prefix, there is an important difference: the
prefix tells isearch that the next command is a movement command, so it
can be used with *any* command (and can lead to surprises if the command
is not a movement command), whereas in the absence of a prefix, isearch
would need to know which commands are "movement commands", and this
knowledge would always tend to be partial, so it will fail with
some commands.
> The only drawback I can see is to give up the possibility of exit
> Isearch mode with a movement command, but IMO, this loss is
> insignificant compared with the benefits.
Depends significantly on your usage pattern. I know such a change to
the default behavior would cause screams and never ending arguments.
So we'd fist have to see this change in action for a while to
demonstrate that the benefit is worth the cost of transitioning.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-25 19:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-21 19:06 bug#7700: 24.0.50; C-y binding withing Isearch mode Dani Moncayo
2010-12-21 21:26 ` Dani Moncayo
2010-12-23 15:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-12-23 16:09 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-12-23 16:46 ` Leo
2010-12-23 17:05 ` Andreas Schwab
2010-12-23 22:39 ` Leo
2010-12-23 17:14 ` Alan Mackenzie
2010-12-24 2:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-12-24 3:25 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-12-24 11:39 ` Dani Moncayo
2010-12-24 12:13 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-12-24 13:34 ` Dani Moncayo
2010-12-25 2:38 ` Juri Linkov
2010-12-25 4:06 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-12-25 11:15 ` Dani Moncayo
2010-12-25 19:52 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2010-12-25 20:09 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-12-27 22:15 ` Alan Mackenzie
2010-12-27 22:36 ` Drew Adams
2010-12-28 0:14 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-12-28 0:51 ` Drew Adams
2010-12-28 1:34 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-12-28 5:43 ` Drew Adams
2010-12-26 23:13 ` Andrew W. Nosenko
2010-12-26 23:33 ` Andrew W. Nosenko
2010-12-23 17:28 ` Drew Adams
2010-12-23 19:23 ` Alan Mackenzie
2010-12-23 19:30 ` Dani Moncayo
2010-12-23 20:48 ` Drew Adams
2010-12-23 20:58 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-12-23 21:28 ` Alan Mackenzie
2010-12-23 22:28 ` Drew Adams
2010-12-23 23:08 ` Dani Moncayo
2010-12-25 2:34 ` Juri Linkov
2010-12-25 4:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-12-23 20:46 ` Drew Adams
2010-12-23 19:48 ` Juri Linkov
2011-05-16 15:11 ` bug#7700: 24.0.50; C-y binding in " Dani Moncayo
2011-05-16 15:42 ` Stefan Monnier
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