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Re: Let's make C-M-w in isearch yank symbol, not delete character
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Let's make C-M-w in isearch yank symbol, not delete character |
Date: |
Sun, 04 Mar 2018 17:47:13 +0200 |
> From: Juri Linkov <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2018 00:34:27 +0200
>
> Done with documentation updates in the manual.
Thanks, but I guess you forgot to attach the patch?
> Also I noticed that the
> value nil of search-exit-option is quite broken: it doesn't do anything
> useful. The manual says:
>
> "However, if you customize the variable ‘search-exit-option’ to ‘nil’,
> the characters which you type that are not interpreted by the
> incremental search are simply appended to the search string. This is
> so you could include in the search string control characters, such as
> ‘C-a’, that would normally exit the search and invoke the command
> bound to them on the buffer."
>
> But the comment in isearch-pre-command-hook says:
>
> ;; If search-exit-option is nil, run the command without exiting Isearch.
>
> So it's not clear what it should do for e.g. motion commands:
> just move point without exiting Isearch or append control characters
> of motion keys to the search string?
Typing "C-s foo C-a" produces "foo^A" in the search string here, so I
think the manual is accurate, whereas the comment is wrong. Are you
saying that you don't see control characters being appended literally,
under this option?
- Re: Let's make C-M-w in isearch yank symbol, not delete character, Juri Linkov, 2018/03/01
- Re: Let's make C-M-w in isearch yank symbol, not delete character, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/03/02
- Re: Let's make C-M-w in isearch yank symbol, not delete character, Juri Linkov, 2018/03/03
- Re: Let's make C-M-w in isearch yank symbol, not delete character,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: Let's make C-M-w in isearch yank symbol, not delete character, Juri Linkov, 2018/03/04
- Re: Let's make C-M-w in isearch yank symbol, not delete character, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/03/04
- Re: Let's make C-M-w in isearch yank symbol, not delete character, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/03/05
- Re: Let's make C-M-w in isearch yank symbol, not delete character, Juri Linkov, 2018/03/05
- Re: Let's make C-M-w in isearch yank symbol, not delete character, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/03/05
- Re: Let's make C-M-w in isearch yank symbol, not delete character, Juri Linkov, 2018/03/06
- Re: Let's make C-M-w in isearch yank symbol, not delete character, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/03/10
- Re: Let's make C-M-w in isearch yank symbol, not delete character, John Shahid, 2018/03/10
- Re: Let's make C-M-w in isearch yank symbol, not delete character, Juri Linkov, 2018/03/10
- Re: Let's make C-M-w in isearch yank symbol, not delete character, Stefan Monnier, 2018/03/10