From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Richard M. Stallman" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Isearch in dired Date: Sat, 08 Nov 2008 19:26:47 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87skq2xq9s.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1226190724 15730 80.91.229.12 (9 Nov 2008 00:32:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2008 00:32:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Chong Yidong Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 09 01:33:07 2008 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KyyEc-0004U2-GW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 09 Nov 2008 01:32:58 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34317 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KyyDV-0007Nl-8h for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 08 Nov 2008 19:31:49 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KyyBd-0006eX-Er for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Nov 2008 19:29:53 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KyyBc-0006dp-2f for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Nov 2008 19:29:52 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=33358 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KyyBb-0006dX-Nj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Nov 2008 19:29:51 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:40872) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KyyBb-0000af-Bb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Nov 2008 19:29:51 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1Kyy8d-00019u-BC; Sat, 08 Nov 2008 19:26:47 -0500 In-reply-to: <87skq2xq9s.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> (message from Chong Yidong on Sat, 08 Nov 2008 09:10:07 -0500) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:105482 Archived-At: > It would be useful for isearch in a dired buffer to match only file > names by default. I think this would be a good feature -- if we can > come up with a natural way to request ordinary search of the entire > buffer. Emacs 23 has the M-s f C-s (dired-isearch-filenames) command which does just that, It was reading about M-s f C-s that led me to raise this issue. That interface is inconvenient, and most people won't remember it exists. That's why I'm suggesting we look fo a cleaner and simpler interface. And we now have a good suggestion.