From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#10542: 24.0.92; `Search' field in Customize Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 09:35:41 -0800 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1326908229 13675 80.91.229.12 (18 Jan 2012 17:37:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 17:37:09 +0000 (UTC) To: 10542@debbugs.gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 18 18:37:05 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RnZRX-0005wF-TA for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 18 Jan 2012 18:37:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42402 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RnZRX-00055k-Fg for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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While this is no doubt a feature (this is not indexed, full-text search, after all), it is not obvious to users. At the very least, the :help mouseover text should make this very clear. It might also help to display double quotes around the field - quotes that are not searched for. Dunno though - that too could be confusing if a user searches for a string that starts with a double-quote etc. But something definitely needs to be done. It is all to easy to click the mouse somewhere in the middle or at the end of the search field, type a word/symbol, and click `Search', only to see "No matches". The only way a user is likely to figure out what's happening is to (a) figure out what function is invoked by the `Search' button and (b) debug that function, to see what's going on. In GNU Emacs 24.0.92.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2012-01-16 on MARVIN Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600 configured using `configure --with-gcc (4.6) --no-opt --cflags -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/libXpm-3.5.8/include -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/libXpm-3.5.8/src -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/libpng-dev_1.4.3-1/include -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/zlib-dev_1.2.5-2/include -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/giflib-4.1.4-1/include -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/jpeg-6b-4/include -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/tiff-3.8.2-1/include -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/gnutls-3.0.9/include --ldflags -LD:/devel/emacs/libs/gnutls-3.0.9/lib'