From: Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org>
To: Gideon Stupp <gideon.stupp@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Conkeror like hints for incremental search
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 08:55:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87aa5dmt54.fsf@tsdh.uni-koblenz.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJzWQ4fbMiaZDohH_Dmy11mH8CnEnZqAQAZy3bi_heHdR456rg@mail.gmail.com> (Gideon Stupp's message of "Mon, 23 Jan 2012 19:52:04 +0200")
Gideon Stupp <gideon.stupp@gmail.com> writes:
Hi Gideon,
> This patch adds Conkeror like hints to incremental-search's currently
> matched strings.
> This way it is possible to choose one of the highlighted possibilities
> without completing the search string (useful when using incremental
> search for navigation).
isearch is my main navigation feature, so I've just given your patch a
try. Here's my feedback:
- The characters inserted in front of matches are somewhat baffling
(First I've thought: Why do I have all those typos?!). At least in
X11 frames, I'd make them smaller than the usual text, maybe even
superscript. And it would be nice if the hint chars where appended
to matches in forward isearch but prepended in backward isearch.
That way, the hint char would indicate the position of point when
selecting that match.
- Concerning navigation speed, I don't feel that those type hints help
me. It might do so if the visible buffer portion contains tons of
matches, but in my regular use, there are only ~3 matches, so
hitting C-s or C-r repeatedly is faster for me than switching my
finger to some other key.
- I think C-f (and all other keys normally used for navigation) is a
bad choice, because that's what people usually use for leaving
isearch. Maybe M-h would be ok. It has some mnemonics, and its
usual binding of `mark-paragraph' isn't too useful in isearch.
Bye,
Tassilo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-24 7:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-23 17:52 [PATCH] Conkeror like hints for incremental search Gideon Stupp
2012-01-24 7:55 ` Tassilo Horn [this message]
2012-01-24 10:09 ` gideon.stupp
2012-01-24 17:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-01-24 18:47 ` Gideon Stupp
2012-01-24 19:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-01-24 11:44 ` Juanma Barranquero
2012-01-24 22:55 ` Juri Linkov
2012-01-25 11:03 ` gideon.stupp
2012-01-25 11:29 ` Juri Linkov
2012-01-25 11:59 ` gideon.stupp
2012-01-25 14:00 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
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