From: Augusto Stoffel <arstoffel@gmail.com>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>, "emacs-devel@gnu.org" <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [External] : Re: [WIP PATCH] Controlling Isearch from the minibuffer
Date: Wed, 12 May 2021 08:45:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fsyswiv1.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: SA2PR10MB4474EB2B4737C508F76D703AF3539@SA2PR10MB4474.namprd10.prod.outlook.com
On Tue, 11 May 2021 at 15:34, Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> wrote:
>> The question is whether it makes sense to provide an
>> alternative UI for Isearch where editing the search
>> string is not a special maneuver.
>
> Really? Is that what this is all about?
Yes.
>
> Just what is the giant inconvenience you find with
> Isearch's `M-e' for editing the search string?
To give one reason, M-e currently has no lazy highlight/count, so it's
not of much help to write a mildly complex regexp.
> [...]
> For 40 years Isearch has won the world by NOT using
> the minibuffer (except for one-off, on-demand pattern
> editing). Zillions of search UIs have adopted the
> incremental searching that Isearch pioneered. (The
> "i" in "isearch" is for "incremental".)
If it were called OK-search, where OK stands for overriding keymap, then
I would understand the talk of throwing out babies.
However, my proposal in no way diminishes the incremental aspect of
I-search.
> [...]
>
> But though this was pitched as just adding an
> "alternative" behavior, the code changes seem deep
> and wide-ranging,
You can think of my patch as (1) adding lazy highlight/count and an M-s
prefix to the good old M-e, which is indeed a bit of work, and (2)
adding the entirely optional minibuffer-controlled UI which only takes a
dozen of extra lines to implement.
If you have a technical argument as to why there shouldn't be lazy
highlight/count in the good old M-e, it won't be hard to persuade me.
> and IIUC, there was even talk of
> the "alternative" arrangement being just temporary,
> i.e., that Isearch would eventually always follow
> your "alternative" implementation and behavior.
Where?
>
> Why so?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-05-12 6:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-05-08 10:13 [WIP PATCH] Controlling Isearch from the minibuffer Augusto Stoffel
2021-05-09 13:36 ` Alan Mackenzie
2021-05-09 17:58 ` Augusto Stoffel
2021-05-10 19:51 ` Alan Mackenzie
2021-05-11 9:00 ` Augusto Stoffel
2021-05-11 15:34 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-05-11 18:31 ` Juri Linkov
2021-05-11 19:38 ` Drew Adams
2021-05-12 6:45 ` Augusto Stoffel [this message]
2021-05-12 12:44 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-05-12 15:31 ` Drew Adams
2021-05-12 22:17 ` Kévin Le Gouguec
2021-05-12 23:07 ` Drew Adams
2021-05-13 15:12 ` Kévin Le Gouguec
2021-05-12 21:09 ` Augusto Stoffel
2021-05-12 15:30 ` Drew Adams
2021-05-09 19:09 ` Juri Linkov
2021-05-09 19:05 ` Juri Linkov
2021-05-10 20:24 ` Augusto Stoffel
2021-05-10 21:17 ` Juri Linkov
2021-05-12 6:40 ` Augusto Stoffel
2021-05-12 17:13 ` Juri Linkov
2021-05-12 20:52 ` Augusto Stoffel
2021-05-13 16:31 ` Juri Linkov
2021-05-13 20:12 ` [ELPA?] " Augusto Stoffel
2021-05-14 1:17 ` Jean Louis
2021-05-14 8:36 ` Augusto Stoffel
2021-05-14 17:30 ` Augusto Stoffel
2021-05-14 18:20 ` Juri Linkov
2021-05-16 11:00 ` Augusto Stoffel
2021-05-16 18:19 ` Juri Linkov
2021-05-25 20:50 ` Juri Linkov
2021-05-29 11:48 ` Augusto Stoffel
2021-05-14 18:18 ` Juri Linkov
2021-05-16 18:12 ` Juri Linkov
2021-05-16 18:49 ` Augusto Stoffel
2021-05-21 9:09 ` Augusto Stoffel
2021-05-21 10:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-21 11:56 ` Augusto Stoffel
2021-05-21 12:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-21 12:49 ` Augusto Stoffel
2021-05-21 15:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-05-21 15:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
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