Re: @#$! new behavior of C-b & C-f in i-search

[Juri Linkov]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
>       (define-key isearch-mode-map "\C-w"    'isearch-yank-word-or-char)
>       (define-key isearch-mode-map "\M-w"    'isearch-yank-word)
>       (define-key isearch-mode-map "\C-\M-w" 'isearch-del-char)
>       (define-key isearch-mode-map "\C-\M-y" 'isearch-yank-char)
>
>       (define-key isearch-mode-map "\C-w"    'isearch-yank-word-or-char)
>       (define-key isearch-mode-map "\M-w"    'isearch-del-char)
>       (define-key isearch-mode-map "\C-\M-w" 'isearch-yank-char)
>       (define-key isearch-mode-map "\C-\M-y" 'isearch-yank-word)
>
> C-M-w and C-M-y might be good to use, but I suspect
> people use M-w to exit a search.  It makes sense there,
> to copy the text from where the search started.

It makes no less sense to use C-w to kill the text from where the
search started, but people already know that C-w has special meaning
in isearch mode.

Anyway, it seems that C-M-w and C-M-y are sufficient, and final
key bindings could be:

        (define-key isearch-mode-map "\C-w"    'isearch-yank-word-or-char)
        (define-key isearch-mode-map "\C-\M-w" 'isearch-del-char)
        (define-key isearch-mode-map "\C-\M-y" 'isearch-yank-char)

C-M-w is even more convenient than C-b because `isearch-del-char' and
`isearch-yank-word-or-char' are on the same `w' key, which will
allow more easily to type C-M-w when C-w grabs too much text.

-- 
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/