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Re: Recentish C-s M-y change
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Richard Stallman |
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Re: Recentish C-s M-y change |
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Tue, 05 Jan 2021 01:44:42 -0500 |
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> You defined C-g, C-q, C-r, C-s, C-w and C-y in 1985 (or perhaps earlier).
When we changed to RET to exit, did we also change C-y to M-y?
I do have a memory of using M-y years ago to yank the last kill
into a search, and choosing M-y for that precisely because
using it to exit the search was pointless (since it would always
get an error after a search).
I remembered those keys because they were so prominent and so natural
that they stuck in my mind. Also, C-q in search was comparable to C-q
in insertion.
> C-h has also been bound in the meantime, but you can still exit isearch
> with C-h as you would have done it in 1985, for instance with C-h C-g, or
> C-h f. IIUC the only difference is that C-h k now describes the key in
> isearch-mode-map instead of the key in global-map.
> Likewise, C-x has been bound in the meantime, to allow C-x 8 RET, but you
> can still exit isearch with C-x as you would have done in 1985, for
> instance with C-x C-f or C-x b.
> Likewise, C-u has been bound in the meantime, to allow arguments to
> subcommands, but again you can still exit isearch with C-u as you would
> have done in 1985, for instance with C-u C-b or C-u C-n.
I did not know that. Thanks for telling me.
But is there really nothing else now? I have a nonspecific memory
of seeing discussion of various new key bindings in search.
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Dr Richard Stallman
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- Re: Recentish C-s M-y change, (continued)
- Re: Recentish C-s M-y change, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2021/01/02
- Re: Recentish C-s M-y change, Gregory Heytings, 2021/01/02
- Re: Recentish C-s M-y change, Richard Stallman, 2021/01/03
- RE: Recentish C-s M-y change, Drew Adams, 2021/01/03
- Re: Recentish C-s M-y change, Richard Stallman, 2021/01/05
- RE: Recentish C-s M-y change, Drew Adams, 2021/01/05
- Re: Recentish C-s M-y change, Richard Stallman, 2021/01/06
- Re: Recentish C-s M-y change, Gregory Heytings, 2021/01/06
- Re: Recentish C-s M-y change, Richard Stallman, 2021/01/08
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- Re: Recentish C-s M-y change, Gregory Heytings, 2021/01/05
- Re: Recentish C-s M-y change, Richard Stallman, 2021/01/07
RE: Recentish C-s M-y change, Drew Adams, 2021/01/01
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Re: Recentish C-s M-y change, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2021/01/01