GNU bug report logs - #32990
26.1.50; isearch-forward + t-m-m/mark-active doc

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: charles <at> aurox.ch

Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2018 18:12:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 26.1.50

Fixed in version 26.2

Done: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #20 received at 32990 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: charles <at> aurox.ch
Cc: 32990 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#32990: 26.1.50; isearch-forward + t-m-m/mark-active doc
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2018 18:02:16 +0300

> Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2018 21:53:31 +0200
> From: charles <at> aurox.ch (Charles A. Roelli)
> CC: 32990 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> Thus, some first steps for the emacs-26 branch could be to:
> 
>   . correct the definition of "last input item" as mentioned in the
>     documentation of "isearch-delete-char"
> 
>   . name, index and fully explain "isearch-delete-char" in the Emacs
>     manual
> 
>   . mention in more places how and when to use "isearch-delete-char"

Sounds like a good plan to me, thanks.

I wouldn't rename isearch-delete-char; instead, I'd explain that what
it does is a kind of "undo", as you describe.
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