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Re: killing the result of isearch
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Jean-Christophe Helary |
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Re: killing the result of isearch |
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Tue, 7 Nov 2017 16:49:00 +0900 |
> On Nov 7, 2017, at 16:07, Loris Bennett <loris.bennett@fu-berlin.de> wrote:
>
> I can sort of imagine that such a function might be useful, but in several
> decades of using Emacs, both writing code and prose, I've honestly never
> missed it. What is your use case?
Acting on the matching string. Yank, kill, overwrite. Things that you can do in
other editors where the result of a search is a selection.
> The closest I come is search and replace, so you could just replace with an
> empty string.
isearch
isearch-query-replace
C-w
> However, searching and then doing 'C-backspace' deletes the word found on my
> system.
Thank you, I guess that's what I was looking for.
It's confusing to have "delete" act where point is *not* (ie in the mini
buffer).
Jean-Christophe Helary
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