From: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: "Match whole word only" "Match case"
Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 04:05:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zmx8dwtl.fsf@jurta.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050311.162056.18390800.Takaaki.Ota@am.sony.com> (Tak Ota's message of "Fri, 11 Mar 2005 16:20:56 -0800 (PST)")
Tak Ota <Takaaki.Ota@am.sony.com> writes:
> Do you think it is worth considering to have these search options to
> be explicit choice from the Edit->Search and Edit->Replace menu?
There is already "Case-Insensitive Search" option in Options menu.
But putting "Word Search" option in Options menu is a possible source
of confusion: users might forget about it after turning it on, and later
wonder why normal search can't find a part of the word. Also note that
word search and replace are not very useful. In source code they often
don't work as intended. What is more useful are not \b delimiters,
but \_< and \_> to match symbols instead of words.
--
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-13 2:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-12 0:20 "Match whole word only" "Match case" Tak Ota
2005-03-12 0:59 ` Miles Bader
2005-03-12 13:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-03-12 22:15 ` Richard Stallman
2005-03-14 18:28 ` Tak Ota
2005-03-13 2:05 ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2005-03-13 6:07 ` Miles Bader
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