From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: "Match whole word only" "Match case" Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 04:05:02 +0200 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <87zmx8dwtl.fsf@jurta.org> References: <20050311.162056.18390800.Takaaki.Ota@am.sony.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1110689668 15878 80.91.229.2 (13 Mar 2005 04:54:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 04:54:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 13 05:54:27 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DAL74-0002xp-2u for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 13 Mar 2005 05:54:02 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DALMT-0002jh-Lc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 13 Mar 2005 00:09:57 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DALMF-0002j4-W1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Mar 2005 00:09:44 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DALMC-0002gj-Qy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Mar 2005 00:09:42 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DALMC-0002gZ-Mn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Mar 2005 00:09:40 -0500 Original-Received: from [194.126.101.111] (helo=MXR-5.estpak.ee) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DAL1l-0004wD-Cz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Mar 2005 23:48:33 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.neti.ee (80-235-34-125-dsl.mus.estpak.ee [80.235.34.125]) by MXR-5.estpak.ee (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BE5412DA9C; Sun, 13 Mar 2005 06:48:23 +0200 (EET) Original-To: Tak Ota 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)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org X-MailScanner-To: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:34532 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:34532 Tak Ota 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/