Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!compugen!john
From: john@compugen. (John Beaudin)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: This is Bad (isearch-forward & query-replace)
Message-ID: <2078@compugen.>
Date: 14 Aug 89 03:36:18 GMT
References: <1042@bimacs.BITNET>
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sprecher@bimacs.BITNET (Sprecher  yossy) writes:

>annoying thing about emacs is that when you use incremental search
>to find some string you must end it with an Escape. 

Not so, ^a, ^e, ^f, ^b, ^d can end it as well.

>query-replace is even worse: once you get out of it with an ESC it is
>impossible to resume.
Query-replace has 'recursive edit' available whereby you temporarily
leave the query-replace, do some stuff, and resume where you left off.

I think you owe the implementors of emacs an appology. You have very
clearly not made an attempt to read the documentation. Instead you
flame. Please be more considerate in the future. I feel bad when I read
about freeloaders (:-) like yourself cutting up something they didn't
contribute to. I use emacs and am damn glad some people had the generosity
and sense to post it. "Those who can, do; those who can't, complain."

I don't regret this flame.O
I'm not really sorry for the flame, 
-- 
We don' sign no stinkin dots