Re: Isearch in dired

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>]

> However, one possibility is to define a standard "dwim search" key
> binding, and try to use that key binding everywhere we want a command
> that tries to guess where the user wants to search.  Then we can make a
> "dwim search" in Dired mean searching filenames.

That might work indeed.  In the case of dired we could use a heuristic
either based on the start column, or based on "if the string matches
a filename, then treat it as a filename search, and if no filename
matches the string, then search over the whole buffer".


        Stefan