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Re: isearch C-o patch (post-freeze resubmission)
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Karl Fogel |
Subject: |
Re: isearch C-o patch (post-freeze resubmission) |
Date: |
30 Nov 2001 17:54:33 -0600 |
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address@hidden (Kim F. Storm) writes:
> Karl Fogel <address@hidden> writes:
> > I've committed the new `isearch-yank-char' function to isearch.el;
> > this feature is similar to C-w and C-y in isearch, except it yanks
> > just one char at a time, instead of a word or a whole line.
> >
> > So could other people who use use complex input systems please give
> > this a try and see what you think?
>
> I think it is a very useful feature - which I've missed many times!
>
> However, I would much rather change the behaviour of C-w so that it
> copies a `word' if it is on a `word character' and a single character
> otherwise. Then I could C-w C-w C-w to copy word+= into the
> minibuffer (and use backspace if I got too much).
Yes, fixing forward-word would solve many of the instances, but not
all. Remember, it is not necessarily the case that when a char is
complex to input, it is a word in that language. It may still be a
char and not a word. :-)
The other factor is that making forward-word more sophisticated is
much harder to implement.
(See http://www.red-bean.com/kfogel/isearch-thread.html for some past
discussion about it.)
-K
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