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).
next prev parent 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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