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Why change the advertised bindings of Isearch commands?
From: |
Drew Adams |
Subject: |
Why change the advertised bindings of Isearch commands? |
Date: |
Thu, 26 Nov 2015 10:45:42 -0800 (PST) |
In Isearch, these key bindings have long been in effect,
and they are still in effect:
M-e - isearch-edit-string
M-c - isearch-toggle-case-fold
M-r - isearch-toggle-regexp
These keys are far easier to use than M-s c, M-s r, M-s e.
So why have we changed the advertised bindings to be these
more complex keys?
IOW, why this?
(put 'isearch-toggle-case-fold :advertised-binding "\M-sc")
(put 'isearch-toggle-regexp :advertised-binding "\M-sr")
(put 'isearch-edit-string :advertised-binding "\M-se")
I do not think this is an improvement for users.
If the aim was to let users know that they _can_ find such
commands on the common prefix `M-s' (which is fine), that
information is available in other ways. For one thing, it
is trivial to do `M-s C-h' during Isearch, to see all of
the `M-s' bindings.
Let's please not advertise these more complex bindings in
favor of the longstanding, simple ones (thankfully still
usable).
- Why change the advertised bindings of Isearch commands?,
Drew Adams <=
- Re: Why change the advertised bindings of Isearch commands?, Juri Linkov, 2015/11/26
- RE: Why change the advertised bindings of Isearch commands?, Drew Adams, 2015/11/26
- Re: Why change the advertised bindings of Isearch commands?, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/11/27
- RE: Why change the advertised bindings of Isearch commands?, Drew Adams, 2015/11/27
- Re: Why change the advertised bindings of Isearch commands?, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/11/27
- RE: Why change the advertised bindings of Isearch commands?, Drew Adams, 2015/11/27
- Re: Why change the advertised bindings of Isearch commands?, Juri Linkov, 2015/11/27
- RE: Why change the advertised bindings of Isearch commands?, Drew Adams, 2015/11/27
- Re: Why change the advertised bindings of Isearch commands?, Richard Stallman, 2015/11/28
- Re: Why change the advertised bindings of Isearch commands?, John Wiegley, 2015/11/28