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Re: snarf up text when at query-replace from: prompt


From: Robert J. Chassell
Subject: Re: snarf up text when at query-replace from: prompt
Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2003 12:32:01 +0000 (UTC)

       well actually lets talk about C-s.  If one hit C-s C-h, wouldn't it be
       neat if it were like when one hit C-h k C-s?  

No, because that action will confuse beginners.  Acting on the
principle of `least surprise' they will come to expect all commands to
work like that.  Thus, a beginner would expect `s C-h' to provide the
same results as `C-h k s' rather than the current result.

If you made such a change, to what would you rebind `C-h' to so as to
continue to provide the current features?

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    Robert J. Chassell                         Rattlesnake Enterprises
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