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emacs 19 new isearch

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From: Francesco Potorti`
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 14:19
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In emacs 18.59 info, node Search Changes, one can read:

   The most important change in incremental search is that RET now
terminates a search, and ESC does not. [ ... ]

     (This change is somewhat of an experiment; it might be taken back
     by the time Emacs 19 is really released.)

Please, don't take it back!  The thing I most hate in emacs is that
you must hit ESC to terminate a search.  One time over two i hit
either a RET, one of the arrow keys, or one of the PgUp, Home and so
on keys.  Since I use a vt100, those keys send a sequence beginning
with ESC: the search is terminated and the rest of the sequence is
inserted into the buffer.  Sometimes I don't even notice that until I
get a compilation error!

I keep making this error even though I have used emacs for more than
two years now and I use it daily.

Thanks.
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