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- From: Ray.Nickson@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Ray Nickson)
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- Subject: Re: emacs 19 new isearch
- Message-ID: <BzFF4K.Ly8@comp.vuw.ac.nz>
- Date: 17 Dec 92 23:12:19 GMT
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- In-Reply-To: joel@wam.umd.edu's message of Thu, 17 Dec 1992 04:27:35 GMT
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- [Sorry for carrying this on in an inappropriate newsgroup]
-
- In article <1992Dec17.042735.18401@wam.umd.edu> joel@wam.umd.edu (Joel M. Hoffman) writes:
-
- Now that I think of it, why not use C-space (set-mark) to terminate
- a search?
-
- I set search-exit-char to -1 and search-exit-option to t so that
- `random control characters' and nothing else terminate a search. I
- then use C-@ (set-mark) to terminate a search, unless I want to do
- some other command instead.
-
- The only thing I can't then do is search for newline by typing RET in
- the string -- I have to use C-Q C-J instead, and I find that a minor
- pain.
-
- Ray
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