isearch feature proposal

isearch feature proposal

[Ivan Kanis]

Hi,

I would like isearch to wrap without failing. This would save one
keystroke (C-s). Looking at the code it would take a bit of hacking. If
I write it would it be acceptable for the next release?
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Re: isearch feature proposal

[Juri Linkov]

> I would like isearch to wrap without failing. This would save one
> keystroke (C-s). Looking at the code it would take a bit of hacking.

You could see how it's possible to wrap without failing in
‘multi-isearch-pause’.

Re: isearch feature proposal

[Damien Wyart]

* Ivan Kanis <ivan@kanis.fr> [2014-01-09 09:35]:
> I would like isearch to wrap without failing. This would save one
> keystroke (C-s). Looking at the code it would take a bit of hacking.
> If I write it would it be acceptable for the next release?

You can read a defadvice-based way of doing it here:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/285660/automatically-wrapping-i-search

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Damien Wyart

Re: isearch feature proposal

[Tassilo Horn]

Ivan Kanis <ivan@kanis.fr> writes:

Hi Ivan,

> I would like isearch to wrap without failing. This would save one
> keystroke (C-s).

I sometimes use isearch to check occurences of the symbol at point only
before/after my current position, e.g., to see if my function is not
used before being declared after having moved it.  That wouldn't work if
isearch would silently wrap around.

So that feature should be optional or/and somehow indicate strongly that
it has wrapped around.  But I don't think that saving one C-s/C-r is
such a big improvement.  Your fingers are on that key anyway.

Bye,
Tassilo

Re: isearch feature proposal

[Ivan Kanis]

January, 09 at 11:13 Damien Wyart wrote:

> * Ivan Kanis <ivan@kanis.fr> [2014-01-09 09:35]:
>> I would like isearch to wrap without failing. This would save one
>> keystroke (C-s). Looking at the code it would take a bit of hacking.
>> If I write it would it be acceptable for the next release?
>
> You can read a defadvice-based way of doing it here:
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/285660/automatically-wrapping-i-search

Thanks it works like a charm!
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Re: isearch feature proposal

[Ivan Kanis]

January, 09 at 11:33 Tassilo Horn wrote:

> Ivan Kanis <ivan@kanis.fr> writes:
>
> Hi Ivan,
>
>> I would like isearch to wrap without failing. This would save one
>> keystroke (C-s).

> So that feature should be optional or/and somehow indicate strongly that
> it has wrapped around.  But I don't think that saving one C-s/C-r is
> such a big improvement.  Your fingers are on that key anyway.

I don't know if it's a big improvement. After all I have been satisfied
with the default for many years. I think it should be a defcustom in
ispell.el as vim has the feature and we don't.

Would it be considered after 24.4 is out?
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Re: isearch feature proposal

[Tim Visher]

Hi Ivan,

On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 3:35 AM, Ivan Kanis <ivan@kanis.fr> wrote:
> I would like isearch to wrap without failing. This would save one
> keystroke (C-s). Looking at the code it would take a bit of hacking. If
> I write it would it be acceptable for the next release?

This would also break isearch's use in a keyboard macro repeat with
`M-0` by making it impossible to stop at the end of the file. I would
also see this as a negative.

But being able to optionally allow wrap (either through a prefix arg
or simply a new function) would be most welcome for when I do intend
to wrap.

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