From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Lennart Borgman'" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
Cc: 6227@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#6227: Color isearch regexp submatches differently
Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 06:33:50 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <D571867F93E243858CE155F6DB9206CA@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTim2L-BCkATdmWVLMOFNRFbiZoVoHDJNAdt3ytb9@mail.gmail.com>
> > Did you mean something like this (attached)?
> > This is how I highlight submatches in Icicles search.
> >
> > (The top part of the image, with light blue background,
> > shows the highlighting. The bottom part of the image,
> > with white background, shows the regexp used and
> > is just an explanation of the subgroup highlighting.)
>
> Yes, exactly.
IMO, this can be very helpful when searching with regexps.
And it can help users learn about using regexps more generally.
Of course, such highlighting should be optional, and preferably via a toggle
during Isearch.
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2010-05-20 11:01 bug#6227: Color isearch regexp submatches differently Lennart Borgman
2010-05-20 13:21 ` Drew Adams
2010-05-20 13:28 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-05-20 13:33 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2010-05-20 15:02 ` Drew Adams
2010-05-21 0:07 ` Juri Linkov
2010-05-21 1:19 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-05-22 23:44 ` Juri Linkov
2010-05-23 0:51 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-05-23 0:54 ` Juri Linkov
2010-05-23 10:04 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-05-23 16:12 ` Juri Linkov
2010-05-23 16:40 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-06-08 13:37 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-06-09 8:36 ` Juri Linkov
2010-06-09 9:14 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-06-10 15:28 ` Juri Linkov
2010-06-10 15:52 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-06-10 20:52 ` Juri Linkov
2010-06-10 21:41 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-06-11 0:44 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-06-11 8:17 ` Juri Linkov
2020-09-19 21:29 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-09-19 22:19 ` Drew Adams
2020-09-20 5:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-20 9:41 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-09-20 9:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-20 10:04 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-09-20 13:47 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-09-20 14:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-20 19:45 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-09-20 20:25 ` Drew Adams
2020-09-21 2:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-21 13:48 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-09-20 16:41 ` Drew Adams
2020-09-20 16:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2020-09-21 4:49 ` Drew Adams
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