Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!gatech!purdue!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!bbn!gateway!dsys.ncsl.nist.GOV!rbj From: rbj@dsys.ncsl.nist.GOV (Root Boy Jim) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: This is Bad (isearch-forward & query-replace) Message-ID: <8908141744.AA26027@dsys.ncsl.nist.gov> Date: 14 Aug 89 17:44:55 GMT Sender: news@bbn.COM Organization: National Institute of Standards and Technology formerly National Bureau of Standards Lines: 8 ? Is there a way to replace the ESC with some other control-character as the ? stop character for the search? Put (setq search-exit-char ?\^M) in your .emacs to end searches with RET. I do this because I don't like my escapes gobbled. Root Boy Jim Have GNU, Will Travel.