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From: ceb@csli.Stanford.EDU (Charles Buckley)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: This is Bad (isearch-forward & query-replace)
Message-ID: <10089@csli.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 15 Aug 89 03:34:56 GMT
References: <1042@bimacs.BITNET> <2078@compugen.>
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In-reply-to: john@compugen.'s message of 14 Aug 89 03:36:18 GMT

In article <2078@compugen.> john@compugen. (John Beaudin) writes:

   From: john@compugen. (John Beaudin)
   Newsgroups: comp.emacs
   Date: 14 Aug 89 03:36:18 GMT

   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.

What's more, if you change your search exit character (viz. for Gnu)

(setq search-exit-char ?\C-j)      ;C-j = line feed

you can end i-search with an escape-prefixed-command.  Don't go
tarring emacs with vi-mode-itis.  It's got the cleanest way of making
mode transitions I've ever seen, and far fewer modes.  I couldn't
believe one had to pass into a mode simply to *insert characters* when
I first used vi after years of emacsing.

Considerations of image size aside, in my opinion, the only reason
there are still vi users around is to give "the guys" something to
carry on about at lunchtime.