From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Vagn Johansen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: New feature idea: isearch with autocorrection Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2012 19:45:38 +0200 Organization: SunSITE.dk - Supporting Open source Message-ID: <86bohylvb1.fsf@hotmail.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1345917016 27084 80.91.229.3 (25 Aug 2012 17:50:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2012 17:50:16 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 25 19:50:17 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1T5KUw-0003tW-KQ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 25 Aug 2012 19:50:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34200 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T5KUu-000496-OD for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 25 Aug 2012 13:50:12 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!dotsrc.org!filter.dotsrc.org!news.dotsrc.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.1 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:/X32K91XjCtbv+ahcA1zw2mlv3o= Original-Lines: 24 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 188.179.127.211 Original-X-Trace: news.sunsite.dk DXC=U?OMFEdi@E0H=^0YSB=nbEKnk; h@SS409NLn1cXa`SU1m]j4R]EXLP^hkn; 0IWLheeA97h6Efi4 Original-X-Complaints-To: staff@sunsite.dk Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:194141 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:86506 Archived-At: Tom writes: > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12099760/emacs-incremental-search-auto-remove-from- the-search-string-the-characters-tha > > The asker wants isearch to ignore the nonmatching character if > a later character can be used for successful matching. > > What do you think? It sounds useful, not having to delete the > problematic part, but simply typing the correct characters. This sounds a bit weird. > It could be useful to have an option to turn on this feature. > Would it be hard to implement? > Something close this behaviour can be found in fuzzy.el https://github.com/m2ym/fuzzy-el/blob/master/fuzzy.el It has support for isearch (use turn-on-fuzzy-isearch). -- Vagn Johansen