From: Vagn Johansen <gonz808@hotmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: New feature idea: isearch with autocorrection
Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2012 19:45:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86bohylvb1.fsf@hotmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.7531.1345837128.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Tom <adatgyujto@gmail.com> writes:
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12099760/emacs-incremental-search-auto-remove-from- the-search-string-the-characters-tha
>
> The asker wants isearch to ignore the nonmatching character if
> a later character can be used for successful matching.
>
> What do you think? It sounds useful, not having to delete the
> problematic part, but simply typing the correct characters.
This sounds a bit weird.
> It could be useful to have an option to turn on this feature.
> Would it be hard to implement?
>
Something close this behaviour can be found in fuzzy.el
https://github.com/m2ym/fuzzy-el/blob/master/fuzzy.el
It has support for isearch (use turn-on-fuzzy-isearch).
--
Vagn Johansen
next parent reply other threads:[~2012-08-25 17:45 UTC|newest]
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2012-08-25 17:45 ` Vagn Johansen [this message]
2012-08-25 18:55 ` New feature idea: isearch with autocorrection Tom
2012-08-25 19:08 ` Tom
2012-08-24 19:38 Tom
2012-08-27 9:25 ` Yuri Khan
2012-08-27 13:07 ` Tom
2012-08-27 13:18 ` Filipp Gunbin
2012-08-27 13:23 ` Tom
2012-08-27 16:45 ` Ludwig, Mark
2012-08-27 18:13 ` Drew Adams
[not found] ` <mailman.7643.1346059524.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2012-08-29 17:02 ` Bug Dout
2012-08-29 18:50 ` Vagn Johansen
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