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RE: `isearch-allow-scroll' - a misnomer and a bad design
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Drew Adams |
Subject: |
RE: `isearch-allow-scroll' - a misnomer and a bad design |
Date: |
Sat, 10 Sep 2011 09:44:11 -0700 |
> > We all agree that the fact that C-u got folded into it is definitely
> > a misfeature in this respect.
>
> I do not agree with this. ;-) The prefix arg is an essential part of
> the command with which one might exit isearch.
I think what Stefan meant here - at least what I would say, is what you already
agreed to:
d>> 2. I would like to see us separate the treatment of a prefix
d>> arg - whether it gets passed it through to a command or it
d>> exits Isearch - from the other uses/effects of this option.
a>
a> I agree, that would be a good idea. It wouldn't take very much work.
IOW, IIUC, you, Stefan, and I have already agreed that passing `C-u' through
would be a good idea, independently of `isearch-allow-scroll' and "scrolling"
commands.
The fact that scrolling commands might always need to _also_ enjoy `C-u'
pass-through is a different matter. That seems to be what you're saying here.
But that wasn't the point. The point was that all commands should enjoy the
same `C-u' pass-through privilege - which I believe you've already agreed to.
> > But you still only have one boolean value to control what
> > commands to pass through.
>
> This isn't quite true either. The current isearch-scroll
> property must be t (not merely non-nil) at the moment. This
> leaves other non-nil values to specify other behaviour. This
> was deliberate.
Well, OK. Today it's a Boolean. Tomorrow it could let you specify more.
That was one of my points: let's let it let you specify just which commands (or
categories of commands) Isearch should pass through.
- `isearch-allow-scroll' - a misnomer and a bad design, Drew Adams, 2011/09/09
- RE: `isearch-allow-scroll' - a misnomer and a bad design, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2011/09/09
- Re: `isearch-allow-scroll' - a misnomer and a bad design, Alan Mackenzie, 2011/09/10
- RE: `isearch-allow-scroll' - a misnomer and a bad design, Drew Adams, 2011/09/10
- Re: `isearch-allow-scroll' - a misnomer and a bad design, Alan Mackenzie, 2011/09/10
- Re: `isearch-allow-scroll' - a misnomer and a bad design, PJ Weisberg, 2011/09/10
- Re: `isearch-allow-scroll' - a misnomer and a bad design, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2011/09/10
- RE: `isearch-allow-scroll' - a misnomer and a bad design, Drew Adams, 2011/09/10
- Re: `isearch-allow-scroll' - a misnomer and a bad design, Alan Mackenzie, 2011/09/11