From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Artur Malabarba Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Exposing Isearch toggleable options Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2015 10:34:42 +0000 Message-ID: References: <87y4emf2fi.fsf@petton.fr> Reply-To: bruce.connor.am@gmail.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1446114900 11655 80.91.229.3 (29 Oct 2015 10:35:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2015 10:35:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel To: Nicolas Petton Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 29 11:34:55 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZrkXl-0001rM-W6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 29 Oct 2015 11:34:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43250 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZrkXg-0000B9-CW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 29 Oct 2015 06:34:48 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54122) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZrkXc-0000B2-CP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Oct 2015 06:34:45 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZrkXb-0007Hc-BM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Oct 2015 06:34:44 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-lf0-x234.google.com ([2a00:1450:4010:c07::234]:36084) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZrkXb-0007HT-3P for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Oct 2015 06:34:43 -0400 Original-Received: by lffz202 with SMTP id z202so16449395lff.3 for ; Thu, 29 Oct 2015 03:34:42 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:reply-to:sender:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id :subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=AryB5pE+FoZl2UUdHBMQCzhZkD14L53QpprN9EYS2T4=; b=mQ0PtPAXsWWyJ9xErVKCLuyMZI7HDPBhs8rn5BK41kSDh7pMJaSOjBKQie/2MElfNI QHvc+pETBl33niH82Ng1VGrlj83tz9Sg6+UM27Wk+m1DIj4bY1cIiPf7h2U37eENEbyE k4JcmzCHupYxZZpZ++d6GPMher7Sw3k+6Kjy6Scvovje97+xvP1h0YsNJu9jMvrvkbVi YkORe7MpLECg2pepFgfjciZMSIAzO0iq9Z5IyfMXUb+IsCp1KQ8FjYKsXxQlcZ2kmxp1 lAp0bJZO9QE5byn31QoCNVq5dOBwTIOKZNBZLA6awpnhrANE9BGCNKToKe7cobvS3AhV POGg== X-Received: by 10.25.20.97 with SMTP id k94mr353479lfi.27.1446114882404; Thu, 29 Oct 2015 03:34:42 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.112.91.106 with HTTP; Thu, 29 Oct 2015 03:34:42 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87y4emf2fi.fsf@petton.fr> X-Google-Sender-Auth: itXnb0KSYmE-42nJR0bydaW-u50 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2a00:1450:4010:c07::234 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:192870 Archived-At: 2015-10-29 9:29 GMT+00:00 Nicolas Petton : > John Wiegley writes: > >>>>>>> Artur Malabarba writes: >> >>> Basically, as soon as isearch starts, you should see something like this. >>> Toggles [M-s]: [w] Word OFF [_] Symbol OFF ['] Character-Fold ON [r] Regexp >>> OFF I-search: search string here >> >> Artur, does this mean the I-search prompt would be two-lines high in the >> minibuffer, instead of one-line? If so, I would definitely want a way to >> disable it; if I already know the options, it shortens the text window for >> documentation I wouldn't need. >> >> For new users, I'm not sure whether it should be on by default or not. It's >> handy, for sure, but distracting maybe? I can't say without that mindset. I'd >> love to hear from some users to see what they think. > > Hi, > > Magit displays all options for each Git action in a separate window, > which I still find useful, even now that I know most of them. The same > goes for org-mode export, it is very handy. I think this kind of > usability improvements are worth it, even if they take a significant > amount of screen space. Good point about magit. I feel the same way. > However, I'm afraid that with your changes Artur new users might think > that these visible options are the only ones isearch supports. I know I > wouldn't look for more options than the one displayed when doing a Git > operation with Magit. Hm. If there's very little friction to this addition (which I don't think will be the case), I could expand this with even more lines so as to show all the options.