From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Simple isearch concerns Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2021 13:50:33 +0300 Message-ID: <834kgf91fq.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20210403001539.x4rb55dvh46rmhb3.ref@Ergus> <20210403001539.x4rb55dvh46rmhb3@Ergus> <878s5wmsjp.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <87mtubz4ls.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <8735w22s9b.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <3ec7e2e58a3733a48ae9@heytings.org> <878s5tc0rn.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <3ec7e2e58a49d4f0ec99@heytings.org> <878s5t9p1i.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <9ff81b52fad2911cc740@heytings.org> <87im4w1tgw.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <9ff81b52fa878cb35a86@heytings.org> <87pmz4zgn5.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <9ff81b52fa72c1233122@heytings.org> <83czv47z99.fsf@gnu.org> <940751cee5bc247768d3@heytings.org> <87blanbzcq.fsf@mail.linkov.net> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="37904"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: gregory@heytings.org, spacibba@aol.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Juri Linkov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 09 12:51:23 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lUojT-0009mE-Q7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 09 Apr 2021 12:51:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48146 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lUojS-0007ql-Sd for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 09 Apr 2021 06:51:22 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:53910) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lUoix-0007Ra-DR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Apr 2021 06:50:51 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:42445) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lUoiw-00060j-PX; Fri, 09 Apr 2021 06:50:50 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:1508 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1lUoiv-0004Pn-F0; Fri, 09 Apr 2021 06:50:50 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87blanbzcq.fsf@mail.linkov.net> (message from Juri Linkov on Fri, 09 Apr 2021 11:37:17 +0300) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:267701 Archived-At: > From: Juri Linkov > Cc: Eli Zaretskii , spacibba@aol.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2021 11:37:17 +0300 > > >>> +@vindex isearch-allow-match-scroll > >> > >> IMO, the name of this variable (and the corresponding property) is not > >> the best one. "Scroll" is the wrong term here, and "match-scroll" > >> doesn't help understanding what it does. How about > >> isearch-allow-motion-commands instead? > > > > I tend to agree with you, but I'm not sure. There is already an > > 'isearch-allow-scroll' and its corresponding 'isearch-scroll' property, > > which changes the behavior of motion commands: it becomes possible to > > scroll (recenter, scroll-up, scroll-down, ...) but without changing the > > current match. This patch does something related, but different: it > > becomes possible to scroll among the matches. > > Indeed, the name is not worse than 'isearch-allow-scroll'. Maybe it's possible > to find a better name? I thought I suggested a better name, right there above, in the cited part?