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RE: How to backspace in isearch-forward-regexp


From: Drew Adams
Subject: RE: How to backspace in isearch-forward-regexp
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:48:43 -0700

> After installing GNU Emacs on some new boxes recently, I finally
> realized one thing that is behaving differently than what I'm used to.
> 
> When I'm using isearch-forward-regexp, I can type letter by letter,
> and it will update the first match found.  I used to be able to hit
> backspace while typing to remove the last character entered in the
> search string, in case I made a mistake entering the string.
> 
> Now, when I hit backspace, it exits isearch-forward-regexp and sends
> the backspace directly to the buffer I was searching in, usually
> deleting the previous character at the end of the last match.
> 
> I have a feeling this must have something to do with the binding of
> the backspace key in Cygwin.
> 
> I'm using Emacs 23.0.92.1 on Cygwin 1.5.

Sounds like you should file a bug. But you might want to get the latest pretest
first, to see if the problem is already fixed.





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