From: Dani Moncayo <dmoncayo@gmail.com>
To: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
Cc: 7470@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#7470: 24.0.50; Word Isearch lazy highlighting
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 08:49:45 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTimpfovaj-HXSxyuY3Q=V58uDM92TOfTG=cnt=40@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r5eb4hta.fsf@mail.jurta.org>
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 02:43, Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org> wrote:
>
> The task of the word search is to find and highlight complete words.
> The heuristics it applies with partial lax word search (comparing
> the current search string with the previous one in `isearch-search-fun')
> is to help the user to type the complete word search string
> without signaling an error. So I doubt that lazy highlighting should
> follow the same logic as partial lax word search.
>
> What does lazy highlighting try to tell the user: "Look, if you type
> C-s, then Isearch will land in the next highlighted place". But in case of
> incomplete word search this is not true. When the user types C-s,
> it will not stop at the partial word string highlighted as you suggested.
>
I understand and agree with your reasoning, and I think would be good
to include that idea in the section of the manual that I quoted
before. The way it is worded now seems a bit misleading/incomplete to
me.
Thank you very much.
--
Dani Moncayo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-24 7:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-23 20:29 bug#7470: 24.0.50; Word Isearch lazy highlighting Dani Moncayo
2010-11-24 1:43 ` Juri Linkov
2010-11-24 7:49 ` Dani Moncayo [this message]
2010-12-05 1:16 ` Chong Yidong
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