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1.3.2 i-search weirdness
- To: info-macl@cambridge.apple.com
- Subject: 1.3.2 i-search weirdness
- From: Nathan Wilson <nathan@teleos.com>
- Date: Thu, 31 May 90 13:09:23 PDT
- Reply-to: nathan%teleos.com@ai.sri.com
First, I'd like to thank the MACL hackers for the increased
responsiveness and type ahead fixes. They are much appreciated.
I think I have discovered a new bug, however. If you restart an
i-search with C-s C-s, and the cursor is currently directly in front
of an instance of the search string it will skip that instance.
I discovered this bug in a slightly different context that maybe makes
a little more sense. I was trying to replace most occurrances of the
character '{' with the character '('. Since query-replace isn't
included in Fred (suggestion suggestion suggestion), I put the string
"(" in the clipboard. I then searched for the string "{". Whenever I
wished to replace one of the ('s I would paste in the "{" with F4 (the
paste key on extended keyboards). The problem arose when there were
two ('s in a row that I wished to replace.
An interesting side note. Command-V and the menu item Paste do not do
the same thing! Within an i-search command-V completely aborts the
i-search. The Paste menu item, on the other hand, inserts the text
and remains in the search so that the next C-s takes you to the 'next'
instance. Both of them skip the next pattern if it is immediately
after the newly pasted text.
Nathan Wilson
Teleos Research
nathan%teleos.com@ai.sri.com