Re: Mouse support does not work

[Aaron Meurer]

On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 7:37 AM, Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> wrote:
>> Actually, I'm starting to feel like I should replace I-search
>> with something else entirely... It does several things I don't like:
>>
>> - You can't edit the search buffer with editing commands.  This is the
>> most annoying.  If I press M-del to delete a search word, it instead
>> deletes the word under the cursor.  If I want to delete the word, I
>> have to repeatedly press delete.  It's even worse than that, because
>> pressing delete by default does a reverse i-search! So I have to
>> delete until I get back to the first occurrence, and then until I
>> delete the word.  Or just C-g and restart.
>
> `M-e' in Isearch.  Lets you edit the search string anyway you like.  You have
> all of Emacs at your disposal to edit it.

Thanks.  Is there a way to make that default? In other words, any edit
command will always edit the search string unless I press RET to end
the search.

>
>> - As I noted, it kills the search when you scroll.
>
> See previous reply: set `isearch-allow-scroll' to non-nil.
>

Great. I've got to remember to make searching M-x customize my first
resort when I want to change something.

Aaron Meurer