From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
To: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Strange behavior of word isearch
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 10:34:39 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k5d0gups.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48DB55A4.5000407@gmx.at> (martin rudalics's message of "Thu, 25 Sep 2008 11:11:00 +0200")
martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at> writes:
>> In other words, previously a word search for "foo" is a regexp search
>> for "\bfoo\b"; this patch changes the search to "\bfoo".
>
> Couldn't this break modes like `ada-mode' or `flyspell-mode'?
Yeah, that might cause some unpredictable breakage.
So probably we need to introduce a separate function that performs an
"open-ended" version of word-search-forward. Any suggestions for the
function name?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-25 14:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-23 16:58 Strange behavior of word isearch Chong Yidong
2008-09-25 3:46 ` Chong Yidong
2008-09-25 9:11 ` martin rudalics
2008-09-25 14:34 ` Chong Yidong [this message]
2008-09-25 15:17 ` martin rudalics
2008-09-25 16:41 ` Chong Yidong
2008-09-25 17:10 ` Chong Yidong
2008-11-08 22:59 ` Juri Linkov
2008-11-09 2:35 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-11-09 17:45 ` Juri Linkov
2008-09-25 13:35 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-09-25 15:34 ` Juri Linkov
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