abo-abo / avy

Jump to things in Emacs tree-style
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proposal: allow backspace to backup to previous tree #192

Open mkleehammer opened 7 years ago

mkleehammer commented 7 years ago

Would you consider allowing backspace for correcting typos when enter multi-character labels?

I notice I'm not as efficient, or at least don't feel as confident, when using avy instead of isearch. (I'm using spacemacs now, so isearch is inconvenient at the moment.). I believe this is because hitting the wrong key in avy requires me to start completely over but in isearch I can hit backspace to undo the last entry. (I'm a touch typist but have a little trouble hitting random keys that aren't part of words.)

abo-abo commented 7 years ago

Sounds useful.