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From: Karl Eichwalder <ke@gnu.franken.de>
Subject: Re: @#$! new behavior of C-b & C-f in i-search
Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 07:22:04 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <shzn85yosj.fsf@tux.gnu.franken.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86k6za1afm.fsf@rumba.de.uu.net> (Kai Grossjohann's message of "Tue, 18 May 2004 09:06:21 +0200")

Kai Grossjohann <kgrossjo@eu.uu.net> writes:

> I have similar feelings.  However, I have decided that I would like
> to try it for a while longer before reaching a decision.  Perhaps I
> can retrain myself to always exit with RET.

Agreed.  The current implementation looks clean and I'm sure I can get
used to it the next weeks.


"Robert J. Chassell" <bob@rattlesnake.com> writes:

> Same here.  Please change them, perhaps to M-C-b and M-C-f.

Being force to press three key to move one step forward or backward is
too expensive.  As long as you can press M-f or M-b to break out of the
search the implementation is okay - To break out I mostly use: RET,
C-SPC, M-f or M-b, or - yes - arrow-left or arrow-right.

> The feature itself is exellent.  But I still have trouble with the
> keybindings.  I never knew I used `C-b' & `C-f' so often, but I do,
> and the habit is very hard to break.

yes, but I think it is more important that having found the first
occurance of the (beginning of) string you can press several C-f in a
row to extent the search string; that less error prone than being force
to enter all the different letters: k-i-n-d-e-r-g-a-r-t-e-n.  Yes, I
know, you can complete the search word using C-w; but often, you are not
interested in the complete word and thus you cannot make use of C-w.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-05-19  5:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-05-18  4:51 @#$! new behavior of C-b & C-f in i-search Miles Bader
2004-05-18  0:15 ` Karl Fogel
2004-05-18  6:05 ` Juri Linkov
2004-05-18  7:06 ` Kai Grossjohann
2004-05-18  7:16   ` David Kastrup
2004-05-19  5:22   ` Karl Eichwalder [this message]
2004-05-20  6:03     ` Juri Linkov
2004-05-20  7:29       ` David Kastrup
2004-05-20  8:35         ` Kenichi Handa
2004-05-20 10:48           ` David Kastrup
2004-05-20 11:31             ` Kenichi Handa
2004-05-20 17:34         ` Kevin Rodgers
2004-05-20 18:02           ` David Kastrup
2004-05-20 20:08             ` Peter Lee
2004-05-24  8:48               ` Juri Linkov
2004-06-07  6:43                 ` Juri Linkov
2004-06-07 19:17                   ` Richard Stallman
2004-06-11  8:17                     ` Juri Linkov
2004-06-11  8:35                       ` Kim F. Storm
2004-06-11  8:48                       ` Alan Mackenzie
2004-06-12  1:50                       ` Richard Stallman
2004-05-18 12:27 ` Robert J. Chassell
2004-05-19  1:26 ` Richard Stallman
2004-05-19  6:32   ` @#$! new behavior of C-b & C-f in i-searchi Alan Mackenzie
2004-05-19  8:33   ` @#$! new behavior of C-b & C-f in i-search Juri Linkov
2004-05-19  9:06     ` Miles Bader
2004-05-19  9:32       ` Juri Linkov

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