From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: isearch (was: Re: Should we move 20.x related stuff out of NEWS ?) Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 05:54:31 +0300 Organization: JURTA Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87wu48u3h4.fsf@mail.jurta.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1082604581 25534 80.91.224.253 (22 Apr 2004 03:29:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 03:29:41 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 22 05:29:32 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BGUu4-0004KH-00 for ; Thu, 22 Apr 2004 05:29:32 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BGUu4-0007n4-00 for ; Thu, 22 Apr 2004 05:29:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BGUlW-000866-AC for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Wed, 21 Apr 2004 23:20:42 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BGUl8-00085j-Jr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Apr 2004 23:20:18 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BGUkc-00080D-DX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Apr 2004 23:20:17 -0400 Original-Received: from [66.33.219.6] (helo=knife.dreamhost.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BGUkc-000807-4F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Apr 2004 23:19:46 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.jurta.org (80-235-33-136-dsl.mus.estpak.ee [80.235.33.136]) by knife.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1063E409E; Wed, 21 Apr 2004 20:19:43 -0700 (PDT) Original-To: Alan Mackenzie In-Reply-To: (Alan Mackenzie's message of "Sun, 18 Apr 2004 14:35:48 +0000 (GMT)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:22022 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:22022 Alan Mackenzie writes: > There's nothing like Isearch for several buffers. It'd be nice to be > able to C-s across several buffers, back again, extend the search > string by typing in more characters, edit it with M-e, in some fashion. > I'll admit, I haven't looked very hard for it, but it's not in Emacs > itself. I sometimes wished this feature too. For example, isearch implemented in the standalone Info reader can jump to the next Info node, but Emacs can't. Something similar could be implemented in Emacs as well: for Emacs Info reader to jump between Info nodes, and for non-Info buffers to jump between buffers. However, there is one question: how to define the order in which isearch will visit buffers. Perhaps, most useful is by recency, but the user should be able to define the desired order somehow. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/