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Re: New feature idea: isearch with autocorrection


From: Tom
Subject: Re: New feature idea: isearch with autocorrection
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2012 13:23:26 +0000 (UTC)
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Filipp Gunbin <fgunbin <at> fastmail.fm> writes:

> 
> On 27/08/2012 17:07, Tom wrote:
> >
> > Isearch should have a binding which deletes all the non-matching
> > characters from the search string. C-Backspace can be a good candidate
> > for that. 
> 
> It already has - `C-g'.
> 

Cool, thanks. It never occurred to me to use C-g to fix the search
string. It's not a very intuitive binding, because it's usually
associated with aborting operations, not with correcting things.




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