From: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 14742@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#14742: 24.3.50; enhancement request: be able to prepend stuff from buffer when search backward
Date: Thu, 04 Jul 2013 01:57:02 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k3l79seh.fsf@mail.jurta.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cf8e54e1-6ff2-460e-bfa0-d8d5465d5b99@default> (Drew Adams's message of "Tue, 2 Jul 2013 22:40:27 -0700 (PDT)")
> Is this the idea: cursor movements would extend isearch by yanking the
> text the cursor would move over in the buffer, starting from `point'
> (where isearch starts)?
>
> E.g., for forward search C-f, M-f, C-M-f, C-e, etc. would yank the next
> char, word, symbol, line etc. to the end of the search string. And for
> reverse search C-b, M-b, C-M-b, C-a, etc. would yank the previous (next
> going backward) char, word, symbol, line etc. to the beginning of the
> search string.
>
> And presumably backward cursor movements when searching forward (e.g.,
> C-b, M-b, C-M-b, C-a) would undo, in the sense of removing yanked text
> (but only yanked text, presumably) from the end. And forward cursor
> movements when searching backward would remove yanked text from the
> beginning.
>
> Is that the idea?
Exactly.
> Do you have this working already? Have you described what you have in
> mind somewhere? Did you bring this up in emacs-devel? If not, please
> consider it - that is the best place to toss such an idea around.
Yes, it is working and I described it on emacs-devel a month ago.
Now I'll prepare a minimal patch that implements low-level support, then
send separate high-level code to activate it, so everyone could try it.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-03 22:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-28 18:17 bug#14742: 24.3.50; enhancement request: be able to prepend stuff from buffer when search backward Drew Adams
2013-06-28 21:43 ` Juri Linkov
2013-06-28 22:00 ` Drew Adams
2013-06-29 21:50 ` Juri Linkov
2013-06-29 23:02 ` Drew Adams
2013-07-02 22:39 ` Juri Linkov
2013-07-02 23:42 ` Drew Adams
2013-07-02 23:53 ` Juri Linkov
2013-07-03 1:07 ` Drew Adams
2013-07-03 5:40 ` Drew Adams
2013-07-03 22:57 ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2013-07-04 0:17 ` Drew Adams
2013-07-04 23:34 ` Juri Linkov
2013-07-05 10:37 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-07-05 22:28 ` Juri Linkov
2013-07-05 22:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-07-05 23:17 ` Juri Linkov
2013-07-06 0:40 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-09-18 14:30 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-09-18 16:11 ` Drew Adams
2020-09-21 19:07 ` Juri Linkov
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