isearch behavior with <delete>

isearch behavior with <delete>

[Carl Offner]

I'm currently using emacs 21.1.  In some previous version of emacs, if
I were to search (using isearch) for a string and then realized that I
typed one or more wrong characters, I could delete successive
characters from the end of the search string by using the delete key.

In the current version, however, the first delete ends the search and
successive deletes wipe out characters in the file I'm editing.

Is there any way to customize the behavior of isearch to restore the
older behavior?

        --Carl Offner

Re: isearch behavior with <delete>

[Kai Großjohann]

Carl Offner <offner@cs.umb.edu> writes:

> I'm currently using emacs 21.1.  In some previous version of emacs, if
> I were to search (using isearch) for a string and then realized that I
> typed one or more wrong characters, I could delete successive
> characters from the end of the search string by using the delete key.
>
> In the current version, however, the first delete ends the search and
> successive deletes wipe out characters in the file I'm editing.
>
> Is there any way to customize the behavior of isearch to restore the
> older behavior?

I'm not sure I understand, but hitting <backspace> does what you
describe.  What happens when you start Emacs as «emacs -q -no-site-file»?

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Re: isearch behavior with <delete>

[Carl Offner]

kai.grossjohann@gmx.net (Kai Großjohann) writes:

> Carl Offner <offner@cs.umb.edu> writes:
> 
> > I'm currently using emacs 21.1.  In some previous version of emacs, if
> > I were to search (using isearch) for a string and then realized that I
> > typed one or more wrong characters, I could delete successive
> > characters from the end of the search string by using the delete key.
> >
> > In the current version, however, the first delete ends the search and
> > successive deletes wipe out characters in the file I'm editing.
> >
> > Is there any way to customize the behavior of isearch to restore the
> > older behavior?
> 
> I'm not sure I understand, but hitting <backspace> does what you
> describe.  What happens when you start Emacs as «emacs -q -no-site-file»?

That was it; thanks.  I recently moved to a new site, and there's
evidently some startup file lurking around that's getting read in;
I'll track it down.

                --Carl Offner