From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: isearch-query-replace-regexp and stuff
Date: 07 Jul 2004 21:33:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <x51xjnk3y0.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87vfgz4qn3.fsf@mail.jurta.org>
Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org> writes:
> David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:
> > Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org> writes:
> >> The current behavior of C-M-s to repeat the non-regexp search is not
> >> the most reasonable one. More correct would be to switch the search
> >> to regexp mode before doing the search again. I guess it works now
> >> that way because it was simpler to implement and nobody cared about
> >> handling this case specially. But we could change the behavior of
> >> C-M-s in non-regexp mode to switch to regexp mode for consistency
> >> with C-M-%.
> >
> > But that's inconsistent with being able to use both C-s and M-C-s in
> > regexp searches.
> >
> > Don't you see that?
>
> You can see the following comments for `isearch-mode-map' in isearch.el
> (underlining is mine):
>
> ;; Define M-C-s and M-C-r like C-s and C-r so that the same key
> ;; combinations can be used to repeat regexp isearches that can
> ================
> ;; be used to start these searches.
>
> So the meaning of C-M-s in a non-regexp search is still undefined,
Because of some internal comment?
> and the fact that C-M-s can repeat a non-regexp search is a side
> effect of the current implementation.
If you want to call explicitly coded "consistency" a side effect.
> And there is no symmetry between normal and regexp searches
Not? Considering that both behave the same with regard to C-s and
C-M-s I would think there was. And intentionally so.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-07-07 19:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-07-01 23:18 isearch-query-replace-regexp and stuff David Kastrup
2004-07-02 0:05 ` David Kastrup
2004-07-02 17:51 ` Richard Stallman
2004-07-02 6:55 ` Juri Linkov
2004-07-02 7:55 ` David Kastrup
2004-07-02 13:44 ` Stefan
2004-07-03 6:59 ` Juri Linkov
2004-07-03 18:20 ` Richard Stallman
2004-07-05 19:07 ` David Kastrup
2004-07-06 9:59 ` Juri Linkov
2004-07-06 11:20 ` David Kastrup
2004-07-06 16:36 ` Juri Linkov
2004-07-06 17:29 ` David Kastrup
2004-07-07 5:08 ` Juri Linkov
2004-07-07 9:29 ` David Kastrup
2004-07-07 18:29 ` Juri Linkov
2004-07-07 19:33 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2004-07-08 16:45 ` Juri Linkov
2004-07-08 18:12 ` David Kastrup
2004-07-09 20:54 ` Juri Linkov
2004-07-08 23:17 ` Richard Stallman
2004-07-06 22:00 ` Richard Stallman
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