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From: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
To: Dima Kogan <dima@secretsauce.net>
Cc: 22479@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#22479: 25.0.50; isearch and query-replace histories do not remember if we were looking for symbols
Date: Mon, 01 Feb 2016 00:05:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87oac1o15f.fsf@mail.linkov.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bn814qe6.fsf@secretsauce.net> (Dima Kogan's message of "Sun, 31 Jan 2016 09:20:33 -0800")

>> 5. More ideas? ;)
>
> - We can retain the two histories: regex, non-regex
>
> - Any fancy (word, symbol, etc) searches can be stored into the regex
>   history, bookmarked with the appropriate regexen ("\_<", "\_>" for
>   instance)
>
> - When reading the history to present to the user, these can be parsed
>   out. So for instance when the user looks through the symbol-search
>   history by hitting
>
>   M-s _
>   C-s
>
>   emacs can look through the regex history, only selecting entries in
>   \_<...\_>. The C-M-s history can either include all of these, or show
>   only unbookmarked entries; both would be ok, I think.

This approach is compromising but unreliable (doesn't distinguish
between the case when the user uses the symbol search M-s _
or types \_<...\_> directly in the regexp search) and insufficient
(need to remember other search parameters like case-fold and lax-whitespace).





  reply	other threads:[~2016-01-31 22:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-27 22:27 bug#22479: 25.0.50; isearch and query-replace histories do not remember if we were looking for symbols Dima Kogan
2016-01-27 23:08 ` Juri Linkov
2016-01-30 11:43   ` Dima Kogan
2016-01-31  0:04     ` Juri Linkov
2016-01-31  1:00       ` Drew Adams
2016-01-31 17:20         ` Dima Kogan
2016-01-31 22:05           ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2016-02-02  5:32             ` Dima Kogan
2016-02-03  0:39               ` Juri Linkov
2016-02-04  0:35               ` Juri Linkov
2016-02-04  1:38                 ` Dima Kogan
2016-02-04  7:42       ` Dima Kogan
2016-02-05  0:50         ` Juri Linkov
2018-03-12 21:43         ` Juri Linkov
2018-04-14 21:22           ` Juri Linkov
2018-04-19 20:32             ` Juri Linkov
2018-04-20  7:29               ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-04-21 20:02                 ` Juri Linkov
2018-04-22  2:37                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-04-22 22:11                     ` Juri Linkov
2018-04-23  2:34                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-28  8:10 ` Stephen Berman
2016-01-28 10:17   ` Dima Kogan

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