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: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 22:46:42 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87k6o4eo2u.fsf@jurta.org> <874qf83a5i.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> <87psxvq11d.fsf@jurta.org> <87acoy89fa.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 1111356262 18066 80.91.229.2 (20 Mar 2005 22:04:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 22:04:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: snogglethorpe@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, miles@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 20 23:04:21 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DD8WJ-00033S-Ay for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 Mar 2005 23:03:39 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DD8nE-0005R2-I3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 Mar 2005 17:21:08 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DD8iD-0000Yn-Bw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Mar 2005 17:15:57 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DD8i7-0000Uk-0z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Mar 2005 17:15:51 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DD8i4-0000ON-0C for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Mar 2005 17:15:48 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DD8G4-0000ti-OY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Mar 2005 16:46:52 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DD8G4-0001sV-Ah; Sun, 20 Mar 2005 16:46:52 -0500 Original-To: Juri Linkov In-Reply-To: <87acoy89fa.fsf@jurta.org> (Juri Linkov's message of "Sun, 20 Mar 2005 22:17:02 +0200") 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:34853 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:34853 Juri Linkov writes: > Miles Bader writes: >> Something like: >> >> Global info I-search: foo >> >> [Maybe "Cross-node" would be better than "Global"?] >> >> or whatever would be even more similar to the existing "Wrapped", get >> the point across well, and address your concern about the prompt size >> bouncing around excessively. > > I don't like "[initial node]" too. Your idea of using a prefix > looks better. We could have the following prefixes: Again: I don't like the left-right jump of the minibuffer caused by that. If there really is a need for that kind of information, can't we put this in the mode-line lighter of Isearch mode? Like Isearch/Wrapped, Isearch/X-Node... Then the information is available in case of need, but does not take up room and concentration in the minibuffer. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum