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- From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
- Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.sources
- Subject: Re: emacs 19 new isearch
- Date: 19 Dec 1992 05:17:52 GMT
- Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA
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- References: <FRANL.92Dec16131850@draco.centerline.com> <FISCHER.92Dec16202935@vagtel.iesd.auc.dk> <1992Dec17.042735.18401@wam.umd.edu>
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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.
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