From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Drew Adams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: On being web-friendly and why info must die Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 07:08:52 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <5d2465e3-62d7-43bb-a897-7f5b80de1ea9@default> References: <20141205123549.GA29331@thyrsus.com> <87ppbqb6s1.fsf@gnu.org> <87h9x2f9me.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87a92uf8ik.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <8761dif6ib.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87k31xkue1.fsf@newcastle.ac.uk> <87mw6tj8gp.fsf@newcastle.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1418396978 21669 80.91.229.3 (12 Dec 2014 15:09:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 15:09:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: David Kastrup , Emacs-Devel devel To: Lennart Borgman , Phillip Lord Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 12 16:09:30 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XzRqU-0005Fk-5p for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Dec 2014 16:09:30 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57755 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XzRqT-0004Pg-B9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Dec 2014 10:09:29 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45443) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XzRq8-0004PB-8z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Dec 2014 10:09:17 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XzRpv-0003XN-KI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Dec 2014 10:09:08 -0500 Original-Received: from aserp1040.oracle.com ([141.146.126.69]:35381) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XzRpv-0003XI-Ec; Fri, 12 Dec 2014 10:08:55 -0500 Original-Received: from ucsinet22.oracle.com (ucsinet22.oracle.com [156.151.31.94]) by aserp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2) with ESMTP id sBCF8qCj019444 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Fri, 12 Dec 2014 15:08:53 GMT Original-Received: from userz7021.oracle.com (userz7021.oracle.com [156.151.31.85]) by ucsinet22.oracle.com (8.14.5+Sun/8.14.5) with ESMTP id sBCF8qUm006503 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=FAIL); Fri, 12 Dec 2014 15:08:52 GMT Original-Received: from abhmp0010.oracle.com (abhmp0010.oracle.com [141.146.116.16]) by userz7021.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id sBCF8p9o018461; Fri, 12 Dec 2014 15:08:52 GMT In-Reply-To: X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Oracle Beehive Extensions for Outlook 2.0.1.8.2 (807160) [OL 12.0.6691.5000 (x86)] X-Source-IP: ucsinet22.oracle.com [156.151.31.94] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 141.146.126.69 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:179920 Archived-At: > I was thinking of more complex queries. Say you start with one word, > "word1". You get too many alternatives so you add "word2" to the > search string (or the search completion string). Perhaps you also > have fields you want to specify to narrow the search. >=20 > I guess that searching like that is what people are used to today > (except for fields, of course).=20 That kind of searching is available in Emacs with packages such as Icicles (I'm guessing there are others, perhaps Helm, but I can't speak for others). You can provide as many search patterns as you like. And search is incremental. And patterns can themselves be complex (e.g. regexps). And you can exclude pattern-matches as well. And you can match node names at the same time (again, using any number of patterns). But yes, this is an area that could stand for some improvement in Emacs.