From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: isearch multiple buffers Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2007 02:01:34 +0200 Message-ID: <47227FDE.1040506@gmail.com> References: <87ir4tqwj4.fsf@jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1193443350 9338 80.91.229.12 (27 Oct 2007 00:02:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2007 00:02:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, Drew Adams , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Juri Linkov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 27 02:02:21 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IlZ88-0007ac-UA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 27 Oct 2007 02:02:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IlZ80-0004LR-At for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 26 Oct 2007 20:02:12 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IlZ7x-0004JZ-1C for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Oct 2007 20:02:09 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IlZ7w-0004Il-Kf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Oct 2007 20:02:08 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IlZ7w-0004Ie-G6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Oct 2007 20:02:08 -0400 Original-Received: from ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.213]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IlZ7t-0000Vi-Bp; Fri, 26 Oct 2007 20:02:05 -0400 Original-Received: from c83-254-148-228.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.148.228]:59743 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1IlZ7l-0007BT-8A; Sat, 27 Oct 2007 02:01:57 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070728 Thunderbird/2.0.0.6 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: <87ir4tqwj4.fsf@jurta.org> X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 071025-1, 2007-10-25), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Originating-IP: 83.254.148.228 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1IlZ7l-0007BT-8A. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net 1IlZ7l-0007BT-8A 1cb54d5b169c1d73794f16b8b861fa7f X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) 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 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:81807 Archived-At: Juri Linkov wrote: > Selecting the buffers to be searched is not a problem. I think the > *Buffer List* is a good interface to select them. The question is > how to start multi-buffer isearch. Imagine that you've marked a list > of buffers in the *Buffer List*. How to start multi-buffer isearch now? > Should C-s start multi-buffer isearch in marked files, or should C-s > still allow searching for the string in the *Buffer List* (this is useful > for searching buffer names in the *Buffer List*). I believe most users would be surprised if C-s started multi-buffer isearch for the marked files. But it is still a good "mnemonic". Maybe ask the user if he/she wants to search the marked files?