Received: by 10.66.88.168 with SMTP id bh8mr1304000pab.10.1346072874405;
        Mon, 27 Aug 2012 06:07:54 -0700 (PDT)
Path: a8ni64773818pbd.1!nntp.google.com!npeer02.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!news.glorb.com!usenet.stanford.edu!not-for-mail
From: Tom <adatgyu...@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
Subject: Re: New feature idea: isearch with autocorrection
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2012 13:07:35 +0000 (UTC)
Lines: 21
Approved: help-gnu-em...@gnu.org
Message-ID: <mailman.7653.1346072873.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
References: <loom.20120824T213049-485@post.gmane.org>
	<CAP_d_8WysygM=Q1y4zj+DKbovvpqFTUFMqKjEjNdxr9d1sA9sg@mail.gmail.com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: lists.gnu.org
Mime-Version: 1.0
X-Trace: usenet.stanford.edu 1346072874 26080 208.118.235.17 (27 Aug 2012 13:07:54 GMT)
X-Complaints-To: action@cs.stanford.edu
To: help-gnu-em...@gnu.org
Envelope-to: help-gnu-em...@gnu.org
X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/
X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: sea.gmane.org
User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/)
X-Loom-IP: 188.143.111.144 (Opera/9.80 (Windows NT 6.1; U;
	en) Presto/2.10.289 Version/12.01)
X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not
	recognized.
X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3
X-BeenThere: help-gnu-em...@gnu.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14
Precedence: list
List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs.gnu.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/options/help-gnu-emacs>,
	<mailto:help-gnu-emacs-requ...@gnu.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs>
List-Post: <mailto:help-gnu-em...@gnu.org>
List-Help: <mailto:help-gnu-emacs-requ...@gnu.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-emacs>,
	<mailto:help-gnu-emacs-requ...@gnu.org?subject=subscribe>
X-Received-Bytes: 2544
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan <at> gmail.com> writes:
.
> 
> It sounds useful only until you actually try something that works that
> way. Then you discover that, whenever you make a typo, your fingers
> subconsciously press Backspace and correct the typo before your brain
> even gets to realize that you “don’t have” to erase the wrong
> character.

Yes, it may not work well, but I come to realize the fixing with
backspace part could be improved anyway.

Isearch should have a binding which deletes all the non-matching
characters from the search string. C-Backspace can be a good candidate
for that. 

So instead of typing backspace several times, you could just press
C-Bakspace which would leave only the matching part of the search string.