RE: [h-e-w] key-binding: C-s and ESC

[Nascif Abousalh-Neto]

Hi David,
        Your extensions (C-b, C-f) to the isearch mode map seem to be quite useful, would you mind posting them?

Thanks,
        Nascif

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Vanderschel [mailto:address@hidden]
> Sent: Friday, November 08, 2002 1:58 PM
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: [h-e-w] key-binding: C-s and ESC
>
>
> On Friday, November 08, "Daniel Hegyi"
> <address@hidden> wrote:
> >I'd like to replace the standard C-s shortcut for
> >isearch-forward-regexp with C-f ...
>
> Note that C-s is normally bound to isearch-forward,
> not isearch-forward-regexp.  The latter is normally
> bound to C-M-s.  But they both use the same keymap.
>
> >However, I don't know how to assign the "find next"
> functionality that
> >gets triggered when I press C-s again to the C-f key binding. Does
> >anybody know how to do that?
>
> Once you get into isearch mode, the keymap being used
> is isearch-mode-map.  You need to define your
> alternative to C-s in there too.  You need:
>
> (define-key isearch-mode-map "\C-f" 'isearch-repeat-forward)
>
> It is probably OK to leave C-s defined as it is in
> isearch-mode-map; but if you want to cancel that:
>
> (define-key isearch-mode-map "\C-s" nil)
>
>
> I really do not recommend messing with these bindings.
> C-s for isearch is so fundamental to emacs that
> departing from normal here is going to cause problems
> if you should ever become a big user of emacs.  C-f
> for forward-char is also very fundamental.  Other
> folks familiar with emacs will have difficulty using
> yours if you change such things.  (You can usually get
> away with modifying some of the less frequently used
> bindings without too much trouble.) 
>
> (When I started using emacs a couple decades ago, I
> was an experienced user of DEC's EDT editor.  There
> was an EDT package for emacs which modified key
> bindings to work like EDT.  After operating that way
> for years, I eventually realized that I was working at
> cross purposes with emacs and that I should have tried
> to learn the standard emacs key bindings.  I had a
> break from emacs for a couple years; and, when I
> resumed using it, I bit the bullet and ditched my EDT
> emulation package.  It was worth it!)
>
> Interestingly, I have defined C-f in my own
> isearch-mode-map; but, in my case, it is to add a
> single character after point to the search string
> (analogous to C-w, but less greedy).  Even more useful
> is my C-b which removes a single character (because
> C-w is sometimes _too_ greedy).
>
> Regards,
>   David V.
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