From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: "Lennart Borgman \(gmail\)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
Cc: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>,
David Reitter <david.reitter@gmail.com>,
222@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com, emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org
Subject: Re: isearch-repeat-forward: wrong overlay after failure
Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 01:25:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <85bq3ce83d.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48277A86.9070606@gmail.com> (Lennart Borgman's message of "Mon, 12 May 2008 01:00:22 +0200")
"Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> writes:
> David Kastrup wrote:
>> David Reitter <david.reitter@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> On 11 May 2008, at 17:59, Juri Linkov wrote:
>>>> `isearch-repeat-forward' is not an entry point to the incremental
>>>> search:
>>>> it doesn't activate isearch mode neither deactivates it. IIUC, it was
>>>> never intended for non-incremental search, so it doesn't guarantee to
>>>> work when isearch mode is not active.
>>>>
>>>> If you want to find the next occurrence without highlighting it
>>>> and without activating isearch mode, you can use the command
>>>> `search-forward'.
>>> isearch-repeat-forward is interactive, which is why I thought it would
>>> be a decent entry point.
>>
>> Which I would call a reasonable expectation. However, keybindings even
>> in specialized keymaps need to be bound to interactive functions. So if
>> we have functions that are only intended for use in specialized keymaps,
>> there is no way to keep people from binding them to normal keymaps.
>>
>> So it is sort of a combined documentation/expectation problem. I have
>> no good idea how to approach this.
>
> Maybe an error message that explains/points to an explanation?
What should trigger an error here?
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-11 23:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-11 15:52 isearch-repeat-forward: wrong overlay after failure David Reitter
2008-05-11 16:59 ` Juri Linkov
2008-05-11 21:48 ` David Reitter
2008-05-11 22:54 ` David Kastrup
2008-05-11 23:00 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-05-11 23:25 ` bug#222: " David Kastrup
2008-05-11 23:25 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2008-05-11 23:59 ` Juri Linkov
2008-05-11 23:59 ` Juri Linkov
2008-05-12 7:21 ` David Reitter
2008-05-12 7:21 ` bug#222: " David Reitter
2008-05-12 7:56 ` David Reitter
2008-05-12 7:56 ` David Reitter
2008-05-13 0:30 ` Juri Linkov
2008-05-11 23:00 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-05-12 14:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-07-09 17:39 ` bug#222: " Glenn Morris
2008-05-12 14:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-05-11 22:54 ` David Kastrup
2008-05-11 21:48 ` David Reitter
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