From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Type Ahead Find Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 23:09:13 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87k6o4eo2u.fsf@jurta.org> <874qf83a5i.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> <87psxvq11d.fsf@jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1111270155 32708 80.91.229.2 (19 Mar 2005 22:09:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 22:09:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Juri Linkov , emacs-devel@gnu.org, Stefan Monnier , miles@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 19 23:09:14 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DCm7T-0005iZ-2Q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 Mar 2005 23:08:31 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DCmOE-0007fJ-SA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 Mar 2005 17:25:50 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DCmNc-0007WS-9O for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Mar 2005 17:25:12 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DCmNQ-0007Sh-Lt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Mar 2005 17:25:01 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DCmNQ-0007SX-IC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Mar 2005 17:25:00 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DCm8J-0005ew-3e for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Mar 2005 17:09:23 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DCm8I-000330-Kp; Sat, 19 Mar 2005 17:09:22 -0500 Original-To: snogglethorpe@gmail.com In-Reply-To: (Miles Bader's message of "Sun, 20 Mar 2005 06:19:50 +0900") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) 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 X-MailScanner-To: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:34788 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:34788 Miles Bader writes: > Ideally it'd be some area not so noticeable, e.g., at the far-right > edge of the mini-buffer; but since that would require new redisplay > hacking, how about just something like: > > I-search (in node File Variables): local variables > > That's also more similar to other "informational messages" used by > search, e.g., "overwrapped" or whatever. Please not. Tags like that make the search text jump left and right as they change, which makes it harder to keep track of it. For a basic error condition once per search, this is tolerable. As a regular part of the operation (as when going through several files), it isn't. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum