From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tak Ota Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: "Match whole word only" "Match case" Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 16:20:56 -0800 (PST) Organization: Sony Electronics Inc. Message-ID: <20050311.162056.18390800.Takaaki.Ota@am.sony.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1110588046 4755 80.91.229.2 (12 Mar 2005 00:40:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2005 00:40:46 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 12 01:40:46 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D9uff-0001SO-SC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Mar 2005 01:40:00 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D9uuq-00061u-K0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 11 Mar 2005 19:55:40 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D9up5-0003KR-21 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Mar 2005 19:49:43 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D9uol-0003Fo-9o for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Mar 2005 19:49:23 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D9uok-000394-Tq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Mar 2005 19:49:22 -0500 Original-Received: from [160.33.98.75] (helo=mail8.fw-bc.sony.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.34) id 1D9uNJ-000368-0k for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Mar 2005 19:21:01 -0500 Original-Received: from mail3.sjc.in.sel.sony.com (mail3.sjc.in.sel.sony.com [43.134.1.211]) by mail8.fw-bc.sony.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j2C0Kvg6024389 for ; Sat, 12 Mar 2005 00:20:58 GMT Original-Received: from localhost (us00065bd5fa01.am.sony.com [43.191.36.113]) by mail3.sjc.in.sel.sony.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j2C0KvPq009842 for ; Sat, 12 Mar 2005 00:20:57 GMT Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Telephone: +1-858-942-3239 X-Fax------: +1-858-942-9142 X-SnailMail: 16450 West Bernardo Drive MZ7205, San Diego, CA 92127-1804 X-Mailer: Mew-4.2.50 on Emacs-22.0.50.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600 built on 2005-03-03) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org X-MailScanner-To: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:34494 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:34494 Many word processors and text editors I know have explicit options to opt for "Match case" and "Match whole word only" when searching and replacing text strings. These features are not so obvious under emacs. Though it is not a big deal for seasoned emacs users I cannot imagine a novice user to discover and manipulate case-fold-search variable or start using \b in regular expression search. The need for those feature is pretty basic and even a novice user may sometimes want to use. Do you think it is worth considering to have these search options to be explicit choice from the Edit->Search and Edit->Replace menu? -Tak