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Article #294Re: emacs 19 new isearch
From: Barry Margolin
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 05:17
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 05:17
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In article <1992Dec17.042735.18401@wam.umd.edu> joel@wam.umd.edu (Joel M. Hoffman) writes:
>BTW, would M-< (ESC <) termianate a search?
In the current Emacs default, it would terminate the search and insert a
"<". In Emacs 19 it will terminal the search and go to the beginning of
the buffer.
> Now that I think of it,
>why not use C-space (set-mark) to terminate a search? When a search
>is terminated, the mark gets set anyway.
C-space is hard to type on many terminals, since it's actually C-@. Not
all terminals provide C-space as a synonym.
--
Barry Margolin
System Manager, Thinking Machines Corp.
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