GNU bug report logs - #10113
24.0.91; Isearch & `M-e'

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Dani Moncayo <dmoncayo <at> gmail.com>

Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 22:47:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 24.0.91

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Dani Moncayo <dmoncayo <at> gmail.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Juri Linkov <juri <at> jurta.org>, 10113 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#10113: 24.0.91; Isearch & `M-e'
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 22:14:08 +0100

>> Actually I didn't think of making "M-e DEL RET" equivalent to "DEL" in
>> all cases.
>> I just think that, after editing the search string in the minibuffer,
>> the search should be re-started from the beginning.  Not doing so
>> makes little sense to me.  Why continue from a point that was reached
>> using a different search string?
>
> It's as good a starting point as any.  The original starting point for
> the search is also a possibility, indeed, but I don't think that it is
> better in any significant way: it's sometimes better, sometimes worse.
>
> So it's hard to justify such a change.

Fair enough.  Let's forget this use-case then.

-- 
Dani Moncayo
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