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


From: David Kastrup
Subject: Re: @#$! new behavior of C-b & C-f in i-search
Date: 20 May 2004 09:29:14 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50

Juri Linkov <address@hidden> writes:

> Karl Eichwalder <address@hidden> writes:
> > "Robert J. Chassell" <address@hidden> writes:
> >> The feature itself is exellent.  But I still have trouble with the
> >> keybindings.  I never knew I used `C-b' & `C-f' so often, but I do,
> >> and the habit is very hard to break.
> >
> > yes, but I think it is more important that having found the first
> > occurance of the (beginning of) string you can press several C-f in a
> > row to extent the search string; that less error prone than being force
> > to enter all the different letters: k-i-n-d-e-r-g-a-r-t-e-n.  Yes, I
> > know, you can complete the search word using C-w; but often, you are not
> > interested in the complete word and thus you cannot make use of C-w.
> 
> There is no doubt that functions to modify the search
> string character-wise should have dedicated key bindings.
> But it became apparent that C-f and C-b are quite intrusive.
> Luckily, C-M-w and C-M-y are no less convenient to type,

Disagree.  On many keyboards you have no Meta key, and even on those
that do, you need two hands to reach that combination.

I think that the search string modifying is more important feature
than search exiting via C-f and C-b.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum




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