rms@GNU.AI.MIT.EDU (Richard Stallman) (05/03/91)
Would you like Emacs 19 to use RET rather than ESC as the character for exiting an incremental search? The character LFD would become the way to include a newline in a search string. The advantage I know of is that it would work better with escape sequences such as are used when a terminal has no Meta key and such as are sent by function keys on many terminals. The disadvantage I know of is that it will be less intuitive to search for a string containing a newline. I'm interested in hearing votes of yes or no, but votes that come with reasons will give more help in deciding what's best. Most helpful would be to tell me about advantages or disadvantages I don't know about. **PLEASE REPLY ONLY TO emacs-search-poll**. DON'T REPLY TO help-gnu-emacs OR POST THE REPLY AS NEWS.** Let's not start a flame about this.