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From: alarson@srcsip.UUCP (Aaron Larson)
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Subject: Re: I-Search errors inside emacstool
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Date: Tue, 24-Nov-87 13:33:28 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 24 13:33:28 1987
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Posting-Front-End: GNU Emacs 18.41.15 of Thu Oct 15 1987 on pavo (berkeley-unix)


I've found that a much better search-exit-character than ESC is ^L.  Too
many commands begin with ESC, especially function keys, and if you are in
the habbit of typing other characters to exit search mode (^F or ^B for
example) then you will find that ESC causes the rather undesirable side
effect of occasionally inserting characters into you file.  ^L does not
have this problem, and repeated ^L's are relatively harmless.
-- 

Aaron Larson  MN65-2300              Software Technology
Honeywell Systems & Research Center  (612) 782-7308
3660 Technology Drive
Mpls, MN  55418                      {philabs,ihnp4,dayton,mmm}!srcsip!alarson