From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nick Roberts Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: isearch-forward and Info-search Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 21:15:44 +1300 Message-ID: <16945.21424.274651.682564@farnswood.snap.net.nz> References: <877jkfq7v0.fsf@jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1110530193 15023 80.91.229.2 (11 Mar 2005 08:36:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 08:36:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Drew Adams , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 11 09:36:32 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D9fdC-00026i-Pg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 11 Mar 2005 09:36:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D9fsF-0003tb-DZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 11 Mar 2005 03:51:59 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D9fqO-0003I8-1Z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Mar 2005 03:50:04 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D9fqI-0003GH-96 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Mar 2005 03:49:58 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D9fqG-0003Bp-Vh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Mar 2005 03:49:56 -0500 Original-Received: from [202.37.101.8] (helo=viper.snap.net.nz) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1D9fKb-0007Jd-Qp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Mar 2005 03:17:14 -0500 Original-Received: from farnswood.snap.net.nz (p231-tnt1.snap.net.nz [202.124.110.231]) by viper.snap.net.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15E0F48F4D5; Fri, 11 Mar 2005 21:17:10 +1300 (NZDT) Original-Received: by farnswood.snap.net.nz (Postfix, from userid 501) id CE18062FBE; Fri, 11 Mar 2005 08:15:44 +0000 (GMT) Original-To: Juri Linkov In-Reply-To: <877jkfq7v0.fsf@jurta.org> X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 22.0.50.10 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:34462 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:34462 > > Would you like it if isearch failed before proceeding to the > > next Info node? > > > > I would. I suggested this long ago. It should first wrap, as Richard > > suggested. After the entire Info node has been searched, it should > > fail. A subsequent invocation should continue through the manual. > > > > IOW, isearch the node completely first (wrapping), then inform the > > user that there are no more occurrences in the node, then continue > > on to other nodes. > > IMO, this behavior is too confusing... I agree. isearch already does a wrapped search around the manual, I don't think it needs to wrap around each node. I think the others were just talking about it *failing* like wrapped isearch and changing the prompt. Nick