On Apr 5, 2007, at 9:41 AM, Steve Lianoglou wrote:
Hi,
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.
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.
As a non emacs-refugee I actually find the current behavior more intuitive -- as in, I'd expect to be able to edit the search term (and happy that ctrl-a/e hop around in there while I'm playing with it) while in incremental search mode.
I suppose it really depends on your main use case. If you use it to quickly navigate around, i.e. perhaps in a ruby file searching for "def" to move you among the various methods and then the arrow keys/ emacs bindings to move closer to where you want to be, then having to take the extra step is a bit of a nuisance. After all you don't have to do something like that after using cmd-G.
I personally don't use the incremental search much, but I would expect that I would rarely feel the need to edit the search field, at least in the sense of moving about. I might use the delete key, but that's about it.
Just my 2 cents, -steve
Haris Skiadas Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Hanover College