From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Please add comments to isearch.el Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2015 10:13:21 +0200 Message-ID: <83poyd8kta.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83fuzoojcn.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1449821633 14528 80.91.229.3 (11 Dec 2015 08:13:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2015 08:13:53 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 11 09:13:45 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1a7Ipl-0001Ig-DT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 11 Dec 2015 09:13:45 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46368 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a7Ipf-0004lI-Jc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 11 Dec 2015 03:13:39 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58093) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a7IpS-0004ku-HN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Dec 2015 03:13:27 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a7IpN-0008Kv-IK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Dec 2015 03:13:26 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:45513) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a7IpN-0008Kq-BK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Dec 2015 03:13:21 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NZ600000P9Z2Q00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Dec 2015 10:13:20 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.94.185.246]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NZ60001VPI31O30@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Dec 2015 10:13:15 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <83fuzoojcn.fsf@gnu.org> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.172 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:196093 Archived-At: Ping! > Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2015 18:34:16 +0200 > From: Eli Zaretskii > > Would someone "in the know" please add commentary to isearch.el to > explain how the various options are passed to the commands defined > there and affect or not affect them? > > The isearch.el commands are implemented using complex multi-layered > system of functions and macros that make it very hard to figure out, > just by looking at the code, which options affect what commands and in > what ways. About the only way to find that out is by trying each > command, which is very inefficient. I think it will help make this > file much more maintainable if commentary were added there explaining > how all of this works. Thanks in advance.