From: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
To: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
Cc: 22589@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#22589: 25.0.90; First match found by isearch-forward-symbol is not necessarily a symbol.
Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2017 02:11:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fujqx3kn.fsf@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87poiv7exp.fsf@drachen> (Michael Heerdegen's message of "Mon, 06 Feb 2017 12:10:26 +0100")
>> In bug#25562 we found no more ideas how to improve the support for
>> the process of entering incomplete words, so in addition to the patch
>> in bug#25562 that adds indication, also I'm going to install this patch
>> that will optimize the incomplete search by removing conditional
>> matching at the beginning:
>
> I think I prefer the original behavior (but actually, I use a private
> version of `word-search-regexp' that behaves entirely differently, so my
> opinion doesn't matter). But apart from that, the patch doesn't work as
> expected (even with the other patch that adds indication also
> installed):
>
> - in emacs -Q, hit C-h i to go to the info top dir
>
> - I want to word search for "directory". point is at point-min.
>
> - I hit d. Isearch jumps to the "d" in "Type "d" in Info to..."
>
> - I type the remaining letters: "irectory". The isearch prompt says
> "Failed" apparently because I'm now past all matches and isearch
> didn't reconsider the text before the first match "d".
Hmm, this is strange. Unlike the more radical patch in
https://debbugs.gnu.org/25562#22, the latest patch here in
https://debbugs.gnu.org/22589#31 is more moderate - it just restricts
matches to word beginnings, so your recipe didn't fail when I tried.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-02-07 0:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-07 20:41 bug#22589: 25.0.90; First match found by isearch-forward-symbol is not necessarily a symbol Bastian Beischer
2016-02-08 0:09 ` Bastian Beischer
2016-02-08 0:54 ` Juri Linkov
2016-02-08 11:30 ` Michael Heerdegen
2016-02-10 0:55 ` Juri Linkov
2016-02-10 11:30 ` Michael Heerdegen
2016-02-08 11:34 ` Bastian Beischer
2016-02-10 0:54 ` Juri Linkov
2017-02-05 23:39 ` Juri Linkov
2017-02-06 11:10 ` Michael Heerdegen
2017-02-07 0:11 ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2017-02-07 19:19 ` Michael Heerdegen
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