From: dancol@dancol.org
To: "Juri Linkov" <juri@linkov.net>
Cc: Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org>,
Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Isearch interaction model
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2018 14:22:58 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c47118557da2e7973f2f2d7921592314.squirrel@dancol.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87po4gvptz.fsf@mail.linkov.net>
>> I think the answer is to have one history which records the mode used
>> for
>> each search, so that it is reused correctly. (When it makes sense, the
>> user can change the search mode after selecting the history element.)
>
> I still don't see how this unified history should work. Suppose we have
> a history variable like
>
> (setq isearch-history
> '(((search-string "word") (mode word))
> ((search-string "regexp") (mode regexp))))
>
> Then after typing âC-M-s M-pâ (in regexp search mode) what should it
> do?
> Possible variants:
>
> 1. Take a previous history item with the same search mode,
> i.e. the string "regexp", skipping the last used search "word".
>
> 2. Take the last history item "word" and toggle the current search mode
> from regexp mode to word mode.
>
> 3. Take the last history item and adapt it to the current search mode,
> so turn the search string "word" into the regexp "\<word\>".
>
> 4. Take the last history item and do nothing more.
> Then what to do when the last search string is a regexp
> and the current search mode is not regexp mode?
The isearch mode should be attached to the history item. C-M-s M-p and C-s
M-p should have the same effect: the "mode" is only a default for a new
search. If the last search was a regex search, it'll put in you regex
search mode.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-03-06 22:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-02-22 19:10 Let's make C-M-w in isearch yank symbol, not delete character Daniel Colascione
2018-02-23 0:44 ` John Wiegley
2018-02-25 20:55 ` Juri Linkov
2018-02-25 21:12 ` H. Dieter Wilhelm
2018-02-25 21:43 ` Daniel Colascione
2018-03-01 22:39 ` Isearch interaction model (was: Let's make C-M-w in isearch yank symbol, not delete character) Juri Linkov
2018-03-02 0:12 ` Isearch interaction model Daniel Colascione
2018-03-02 0:19 ` Davis Herring
2018-03-02 0:26 ` dancol
2018-03-03 22:50 ` Juri Linkov
2018-03-03 23:46 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2018-03-04 21:42 ` Juri Linkov
2018-03-08 22:55 ` Juri Linkov
2018-03-04 15:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-04 17:13 ` Daniel Colascione
2018-03-04 17:26 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2018-03-04 21:58 ` Juri Linkov
2018-03-04 22:03 ` Daniel Colascione
2018-03-05 3:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-05 21:33 ` Juri Linkov
2018-03-04 21:50 ` Juri Linkov
2018-03-06 21:47 ` Juri Linkov
2018-03-06 22:22 ` dancol [this message]
2018-03-07 22:30 ` Juri Linkov
2018-03-07 22:55 ` dancol
2018-03-08 22:41 ` Juri Linkov
2018-03-09 11:01 ` Daniel Colascione
2018-03-10 21:20 ` Juri Linkov
2018-03-10 21:36 ` Daniel Colascione
2018-03-11 21:58 ` Juri Linkov
2018-03-12 3:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-12 8:23 ` Daniel Colascione
2018-03-12 9:29 ` Yuri Khan
2018-03-02 16:01 ` Isearch interaction model (was: Let's make C-M-w in isearch yank symbol, not delete character) Richard Stallman
2018-02-26 3:26 ` Let's make C-M-w in isearch yank symbol, not delete character Eli Zaretskii
2018-02-27 21:28 ` Juri Linkov
2018-02-28 3:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-01 22:32 ` Juri Linkov
2018-03-02 8:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-03 22:34 ` Juri Linkov
2018-03-04 15:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-04 21:36 ` Juri Linkov
2018-03-05 3:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-05 15:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-05 21:25 ` Juri Linkov
2018-03-06 3:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-06 22:07 ` Juri Linkov
2018-03-10 11:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-10 18:34 ` John Shahid
2018-03-10 21:15 ` Juri Linkov
2018-03-11 2:37 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-03-11 21:52 ` Juri Linkov
2018-03-12 17:38 ` John Shahid
2018-03-12 18:24 ` Alan Mackenzie
2018-03-12 21:19 ` Juri Linkov
2018-03-12 21:36 ` Juri Linkov
2018-03-11 3:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-11 14:32 ` Herring, Davis
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