From: xyblor <fake@invalid.email>
Subject: Re: isearch-whole-buffer?
Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2006 17:48:13 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44ydndg4Yss-VbjZnZ2dnUVZ_tqdnZ2d@mcgill.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <H7iVf.10151$k75.3774@newsread3.news.atl.earthlink.net>
B. T. Raven wrote:
> I'm having trouble imagining why C-s xxxxxxxxxx... and then C-s again to
> force wrapping to the beginning of the buffer doesn't work for you. Even
> if the search string (xxxxxx...) is very long, you don't have to backspace
> to the beginning to return to the mark. You can just C-x C-x. No?
Being forced to wrap the search is inconvenient when you don't know how
to spell what you are looking for, and you have to press C-s every time
you want to try a different spelling. It's also inconvenient to start a
search when the point is at the end of the buffer, because no matter
what you're looking for, you'll have to press C-s again, and you don't
know you've typed enough characters.
There's also a more general design issue at play here: it seems to me
that most of the time, when a person initiates a search, s/he wants to
answer the question "where in this buffer will I find this string?" not
"where will I find this string in the portion of the buffer that is
below/above the point?". I find Firefox's "find" (control-f) to be more
sensible in this regard, and I am surprised that in the long history of
Emacs' development, nobody seems to have shared this view; to such an
extent that not only is there no built in function or variable to
enable searching the whole buffer by default, there isn't even a
convenient workaround. I realize it's a minor point, but given Emacs'
extensible nature, I'm supposed to bend it to my will, right? Or am I
just out to lunch on this?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-25 22:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-24 15:10 isearch-whole-buffer? xyblor
2006-03-24 16:09 ` isearch-whole-buffer? Kevin Rodgers
2006-03-24 16:58 ` isearch-whole-buffer? Kevin Rodgers
[not found] ` <mailman.19.1143219602.14013.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-03-25 18:42 ` isearch-whole-buffer? xyblor
2006-03-25 20:56 ` isearch-whole-buffer? B. T. Raven
2006-03-25 22:48 ` xyblor [this message]
2006-03-25 23:34 ` isearch-whole-buffer? Vin Shelton
2006-03-26 2:07 ` isearch-whole-buffer? Miles Bader
2006-03-26 10:42 ` isearch-whole-buffer? Peter Dyballa
2006-03-26 1:02 ` isearch-whole-buffer? Johan Bockgård
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