From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: juri@jurta.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: highlight failed part of isearch input
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 17:24:17 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1I9693-00031b-BE@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BNELLINCGFJLDJIKDGACAEHFCAAA.drew.adams@oracle.com>
> We could simply try to find the longest prefix which does have a match.
> Can't be that hard.
The rest of my message said that I do not think such a fix is even a good
idea. I probably should not even have said that I don't know how to fix
that, since I don't think it should be "fixed".
Starting again with `C-s C-s' is, IMO, asking Emacs to find the whole search
string; it is not asking it to find the part that can be found. At least,
that's how I interpret such a user intention.
I think that is correct behavior.
The fact that C-M-w can be used to delete chars from the string does
not invalidate it. You can also use M-e to edit the search string in
any which way, but I don't think that matters here, and neither does
C-M-w.
Putting this together with the fact that it is hard to determine the
right "failing part" in this case, we get a thoroughly convincing
reason not to try.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-12 21:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-10 3:03 highlight failed part of isearch input Drew Adams
2007-07-10 13:21 ` Juri Linkov
2007-07-10 14:19 ` Drew Adams
2007-07-10 23:22 ` Juri Linkov
2007-07-11 0:16 ` Drew Adams
2007-07-11 3:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-07-11 5:27 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-11 6:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-07-11 6:26 ` Miles Bader
2007-07-11 7:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-07-11 7:15 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-11 16:10 ` Drew Adams
2007-07-11 19:20 ` Robert J. Chassell
2007-07-11 21:14 ` Drew Adams
2007-07-11 23:17 ` Juri Linkov
2007-07-12 13:01 ` Robert J. Chassell
[not found] ` <E1I968h-0002xA-VO@fencepost.gnu.org>
2007-07-12 23:16 ` Juri Linkov
2007-07-13 18:38 ` Richard Stallman
2007-07-14 23:05 ` Juri Linkov
2007-07-15 22:53 ` Richard Stallman
2007-07-23 4:27 ` Richard Stallman
2007-07-14 23:07 ` Juri Linkov
2007-07-15 22:53 ` Richard Stallman
2007-07-12 21:24 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2007-07-11 21:03 ` Richard Stallman
2007-07-11 21:15 ` Drew Adams
2007-07-10 14:07 ` Masatake YAMATO
2007-07-10 14:37 ` ding susceptibility (was: highlight failed part of isearch input) Drew Adams
2007-07-10 22:01 ` highlight failed part of isearch input Richard Stallman
2007-07-10 14:32 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-07-10 22:01 ` Richard Stallman
2007-07-22 23:40 ` Drew Adams
2007-07-23 18:06 ` Richard Stallman
2007-07-23 21:29 ` Juri Linkov
2007-07-23 22:37 ` Drew Adams
2007-07-23 23:33 ` Juri Linkov
2007-07-24 2:22 ` Drew Adams
2007-07-24 22:16 ` Richard Stallman
2007-07-24 16:45 ` Richard Stallman
2007-07-24 17:25 ` Drew Adams
2008-02-11 23:31 ` Drew Adams
2008-02-12 0:18 ` Juri Linkov
2008-02-12 0:36 ` Drew Adams
2008-02-12 0:54 ` Bastien
2008-02-16 19:18 ` Juri Linkov
2008-02-23 19:47 ` Juri Linkov
2008-02-23 21:27 ` Drew Adams
2008-02-23 21:55 ` Juri Linkov
2008-02-23 23:12 ` Drew Adams
2008-02-24 17:32 ` Juri Linkov
2008-02-24 23:15 ` Drew Adams
2008-02-25 0:01 ` Juri Linkov
2008-02-25 7:59 ` Bastien
2008-02-24 23:31 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-02-24 23:47 ` Drew Adams
2008-02-24 23:58 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-02-25 0:00 ` Jason Rumney
2008-02-25 0:12 ` Drew Adams
2008-02-25 0:17 ` Juri Linkov
2008-02-24 17:29 ` Juri Linkov
2008-02-24 23:05 ` Drew Adams
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