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Re: killing the result of isearch
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Loris Bennett |
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Re: killing the result of isearch |
Date: |
Tue, 07 Nov 2017 11:49:29 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1 (gnu/linux) |
Jean-Christophe Helary <jean.christophe.helary@gmail.com> writes:
>> On Nov 7, 2017, at 16:07, Loris Bennett <loris.bennett@fu-berlin.de> wrote:
>>
>> However, searching and then doing 'C-backspace' deletes the word found
>
> But it does not delete any arbitrary string matching the search. It
> just happens to look like it works because the point is at the end of
> the matching string and what you searched was a word.
>
> If I search for
> ="2"
> C-backspace will only delete the last 2 characters.
>
> So I'm back to the beginning.
So doesn't searching-and-replace with an empty replacement work?
In any case, as Drew pointed out, I think your expectation of how Emacs
regions behaves is not justified. If you start marking part of a word
with C-<space>, you also can't just overwrite it.
As to Emacs behaving differently to other editors, I think it is the
other way round ;-)
Cheers,
Loris
--
Dr. Loris Bennett (Mr.)
ZEDAT, Freie Universität Berlin Email loris.bennett@fu-berlin.de
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