Re: @#$! new behavior of C-b & C-f in i-search

[Karl Fogel]

Oh well.  I was kind of liking the new behavior.  But it sounds like
we have different usage patterns.

I don't know whether it's best to leave the change in the code or not.
I did want to chime in to say that it's not been a negative experience
for everyone, though.

-Karl

Miles Bader <address@hidden> writes:
> I originally liked the idea of `C-b' & `C-f' in i-search doing special
> stuff, but ever since this was installed, it's been driving me batty --
> I apparently use those keystrokes to exit i-search _way_ more than I
> thought.
> 
> The behavior is especially insidious because following scenario happens
> really often:
> 
> I'll do an i-search, try to exit it by hitting C-b a few times expecting
> the cursor to move, and when it _doesn't_ move, I'll realize `Oh, it's
> the new behavior' and try to exit i-search by hitting RET -- but that
> doesn't work, because hitting C-b has emptied the search string (without
> moving the search location), so RET drops me into the non-incremental
> Search: prompt, and when I then hit C-g to try to _really_ exit, it
> aborts the search, and warps me back to where I began!
> 
> At that point I can't even just redo the search by hitting `C-s C-s',
> because the aborted i-search didn't save it.
> 
> Grrrrrrrr....
> 
> -Miles
> -- 
> `...the Soviet Union was sliding in to an economic collapse so comprehensive
>  that in the end its factories produced not goods but bads: finished products
>  less valuable than the raw materials they were made from.'  [The Economist]
> 
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