segre@baal.cs.cornell.edu (Alberto M. Segre) (09/01/89)
[Posting as a favour to someone who can't post directly; please direct email to him rather than replying to me. Thanks. -alberto] > From jack%cs.glasgow.ac.uk@NSFNET-RELAY.AC.UK Fri Sep 1 02:10:24 1989 > Organization: COMANDOS Project, Glesga Yoonie, No Mean City > From: Jack Campin <jack%cs.glasgow.ac.uk@NSFNET-RELAY.AC.UK> > To: segre%cs.cornell.edu@NSFNET-RELAY.AC.UK > Subject: Two questions: search-repeat-char and sentence boundaries > Date: Thu, 31 Aug 89 13:03:22 BST > > > [ I can't post news from here at present, so can you post the following > questions to gnu.emacs for me? best wishes - jack ] > > I usually work at two terminals simultaneously, one going through a > terminal concentrator and the other not. The concentrator uses ^S > for flow control so I need to set up a different key for invoking > isearch-forward. What I've done is put this in my .emacs: > > (global-unset-key "\C-s") > (global-set-key "\C-\\" 'isearch-forward) > (setq search-repeat-char "\C-\\") > > The unset-key is for consistency, to stop me using ^S at all on either > terminal. The global-set-key works fine. Setting search-repeat-char > appears to do absolutely nothing; ^-\ just invokes a new search rather > than continuing to search for the same string. Is this a bug, or am I > doing something wrong? This is in version 18.41.24, but the only manual > I have is the version 17 one. > > Another question: how do I persuade Emacs that a sentence can end with a > period and ONE space? (I use two in my own writing, but lots of Usenet > posters have other ideas). > > -- > Jack Campin * Computing Science Department, Glasgow University, 17 Lilybank > Gardens, Glasgow G12 8QQ, SCOTLAND. 041 339 8855 x6045 wk 041 556 1878 ho > INTERNET: jack%cs.glasgow.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk USENET: jack@glasgow.uucp > JANET: jack@uk.ac.glasgow.cs PLINGnet: ...mcvax!ukc!cs.glasgow.ac.uk!jack