From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: highlight failed part of isearch input Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 18:01:06 -0400 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1184106320 23790 80.91.229.12 (10 Jul 2007 22:25:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 22:25:20 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Drew Adams" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 11 00:25:19 2007 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 1I8O8x-0005sM-2G for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 11 Jul 2007 00:25:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I8O8w-0008AS-K0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 10 Jul 2007 18:25:14 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I8O8t-0008AD-B4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Jul 2007 18:25:11 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I8O8r-00089p-VN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Jul 2007 18:25:10 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I8O8r-00089m-SD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Jul 2007 18:25:09 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1I8NlD-0005ZG-U4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Jul 2007 18:00:44 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1I8Nla-0000lV-GX; Tue, 10 Jul 2007 18:01:06 -0400 In-reply-to: X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:74596 Archived-At: That is a nice feature. Let's install it. I am not convinced we should use the same face for trailing spaces and other things. And I am not convinced we want subdued colors for this highlighting. > Also I think it would be annoying to highlight > the whole search string when it fails (like when repeating the search with > the string from the search ring). It could do this only during typing the > search string character by character. I don't agree about that. It lets you know right away what you've done. For example, perhaps you changed buffers, so the previous search string is no longer pertinent. The slight color change is enough to signal what's happening, I agree with you.