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Article #189271Re: isearch question
From: edward.n.schiebel
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1991 13:52
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1991 13:52
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From article <1991Mar15.033524.21830@mprgate.mpr.ca>, by manderso@spain.mpr.ca (Mark Anderson):
> In article <9103142126.AA29444@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu>,
> morgan@CHAOS.CS.BRANDEIS.EDU ("Dylan Kaufman") writes:
>
> |> why doesn't backspace shorten the search string and
> |> backup so that it finds the shortened string?
>
> It does! Well, search-delete-char does; this is normally DEL.
> --
Exactly the problem. If you have rebound Backspace to delete-backward-char,
search-delete-char is not automagically changed. To set it, I put
(setq search-delete-char ?\b)
in my .emacs.
Ed Schiebel
dog@cbnewsl.att.com
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103b8b,61f3acf7b9f3e94f X-Google-Attributes: gid103b8b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1991-03-15 14:32:31 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!sunic!uupsi!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!cbnewsl!dog From: dog@cbnewsl.att.com (edward.n.schiebel) Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Subject: Re: isearch question Message-ID: <1991Mar15.135202.16761@cbnewsl.att.com> Date: 15 Mar 91 13:52:02 GMT References: <1991Mar15.033524.21830@mprgate.mpr.ca> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 18