From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Strange behavior of word isearch Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 12:41:40 -0400 Message-ID: <871vz8ch4r.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> References: <874p46ztmq.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> <87k5d099c5.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> <48DB55A4.5000407@gmx.at> <87k5d0gups.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> <48DBAB82.2000902@gmx.at> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1222361006 5537 80.91.229.12 (25 Sep 2008 16:43:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 16:43:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: martin rudalics Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 25 18:44:23 2008 connect(): Connection refused 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 1Kitwt-0001t7-2y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 25 Sep 2008 18:44:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57767 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Kitvq-0002HP-SY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 25 Sep 2008 12:43:10 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Kittt-0001aD-El for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Sep 2008 12:41:09 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Kitts-0001a1-Rz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Sep 2008 12:41:09 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=59762 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Kitts-0001Zv-FI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Sep 2008 12:41:08 -0400 Original-Received: from cyd.mit.edu ([18.115.2.24]:55525) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Kitts-00061d-HS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Sep 2008 12:41:08 -0400 Original-Received: by cyd.mit.edu (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 85D4F57E32C; Thu, 25 Sep 2008 12:41:40 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <48DBAB82.2000902@gmx.at> (martin rudalics's message of "Thu, 25 Sep 2008 17:17:22 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:104149 Archived-At: martin rudalics writes: >> So probably we need to introduce a separate function that performs an >> "open-ended" version of word-search-forward. Any suggestions for the >> function name? > > We could use an optional "open-ended" argument. Adding a new argument may not be so good. Currently, the code has been careful to keep the arguments of the different search functions identical, and the isearch code makes use of this.