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Re: isearch behavior with <delete>
From: |
Carl Offner |
Subject: |
Re: isearch behavior with <delete> |
Date: |
Mon, 05 May 2003 21:27:47 GMT |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 |
kai.grossjohann@gmx.net (Kai Großjohann) writes:
> Carl Offner <offner@cs.umb.edu> writes:
>
> > I'm currently using emacs 21.1. In some previous version of emacs, if
> > I were to search (using isearch) for a string and then realized that I
> > typed one or more wrong characters, I could delete successive
> > characters from the end of the search string by using the delete key.
> >
> > In the current version, however, the first delete ends the search and
> > successive deletes wipe out characters in the file I'm editing.
> >
> > Is there any way to customize the behavior of isearch to restore the
> > older behavior?
>
> I'm not sure I understand, but hitting <backspace> does what you
> describe. What happens when you start Emacs as «emacs -q -no-site-file»?
That was it; thanks. I recently moved to a new site, and there's
evidently some startup file lurking around that's getting read in;
I'll track it down.
--Carl Offner