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Re: `isearch-allow-scroll' - a misnomer and a bad design
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Dani Moncayo |
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Re: `isearch-allow-scroll' - a misnomer and a bad design |
Date: |
Wed, 21 Sep 2011 17:01:57 +0200 |
Hi Richard,
> > FWIW: Several people have expressed this idea, with which I agree.
> > C-u should do nothing by itself (and that includes not exiting
> > Isearch, of course). Its only effect should be to provide a prefix
> > argument to the next command, to extend its behavior.
>
> I tend to agree.
>
> This reasoning is based on thinking of Isearch as a kind of a mode,
> but that's exactly what we should avoid.
My reasoning goes beyond Isearch. It is a way of thinking about C-u
as a universal command which always does exactly the same thing:
Collect a numeric prefix argument for the next command to process, and
do nothing beyond that.
--
Dani Moncayo
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