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From: Le Wang <l26wang@gmail.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: does emacs support incremental searching for partial matches?
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 13:59:31 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=xPa9GM0C=OySRXmmjziSLcdJ_1Baj0OURezyO@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvr5aywyno.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@gnu.org>

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On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 11:53 PM, Stefan Monnier
<monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>wrote:

> It shouldn't be too difficult to write up a quick hack to do it, using
> isearch-search-fun-function.  Something like
>

I learnt a few things from this snippet.  Thanks Stefan!



>  (defconst my-isearch-re "[^\n\s\t]*?")
>

or (defconst my-isearch-re "\\S *?")

I'm not sure which is clearer.

-- 
Le

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-02-24  5:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-21 10:28 does emacs support incremental searching for partial matches? Leh CHAO
2011-02-22 14:21 ` Drew Adams
2011-02-22 19:33   ` Leh CHAO
2011-02-22 20:42     ` Drew Adams
     [not found]   ` <mailman.2.1298403193.16069.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-02-22 21:49     ` Tim X
2011-02-23 15:53     ` Stefan Monnier
2011-02-24  5:59       ` Le Wang [this message]
2011-02-24 14:43         ` Stefan Monnier
     [not found]         ` <mailman.1.1298558638.12984.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-02-26  3:22           ` jpkotta
     [not found] <mailman.10.1298381786.4429.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-02-22 21:34 ` Tim X

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