Dave Carrigan wrote:
On Apr 5, 2007, at 2:07 AM, Jacob Rus wrote:
In any Cocoa text view, ⌃A works just fine (including in TextMate).
...As it happens, my finger memory seems to have ctrl-a ingrained for ending isearch, although I suspect that at times I would also use (or try to use) ctrl-b, f, e, p, and n or maybe even an actual arrow key.
Ah, okay. ⌃A just seemed like an odd shortcut to use to exit an incremental search.
Speaking for myself, I rarely want to edit an isearch field. Again, that's probably due to 15 years of emacs habits where isearch fields couldn't be edited even if I had wanted to. But the upshot is that I really miss the ability to end the isearch by moving the cursor.
Yeah, fair enough. I think I probably on balance agree with you. It's nice to be able to edit an incremental search every once in a while, but much more commonly no editing is required, and when it is, ⌘F is not usually much bother.
-Jacob