From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: Info-search-isearch Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 11:10:57 -0800 Message-ID: References: <87ll9cl8aq.fsf@jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1162149093 30120 80.91.229.2 (29 Oct 2006 19:11:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 19:11:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Juri Linkov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 29 20:11:32 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GeG45-0003kO-MK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 29 Oct 2006 20:11:25 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GeG45-0007jC-4y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 29 Oct 2006 14:11:25 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GeG3o-0007cg-AI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Oct 2006 14:11:08 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GeG3m-0007VM-BZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Oct 2006 14:11:07 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GeG3m-0007Ur-6e for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Oct 2006 14:11:06 -0500 Original-Received: from [141.146.126.228] (helo=agminet01.oracle.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1GeG3l-0005sL-Jj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Oct 2006 14:11:05 -0500 Original-Received: from rgmsgw02.us.oracle.com (rgmsgw02.us.oracle.com [138.1.186.52]) by agminet01.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.1.7) with ESMTP id k9TJB1JX005837; Sun, 29 Oct 2006 13:11:02 -0600 Original-Received: from dradamslap (dhcp-amer-whq-csvpn-gw3-141-144-80-244.vpn.oracle.com [141.144.80.244]) by rgmsgw02.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.2.4) with SMTP id k9TJB0Bf029032; Sun, 29 Oct 2006 12:11:01 -0700 Original-To: X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <87ll9cl8aq.fsf@jurta.org> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 Importance: Normal X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE 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:61344 Archived-At: I was reminded of this 2005 thread by a recent thread in help-gnu-emacs. >>From what I can see, Juri's accidental discovery (`C-x M-e C-w WORDS C-s') never did get documented as a tip in the Emacs manual. I think it should be. Many word-processing programs and text editors make it very easy to do word searches, sometimes incremental word searches. In Emacs, AFAIK, we haven't yet provided a simple way to do this. Juri's tip is a good one, until we provide a better (quicker and easier to remember) interface to incremental word searching. (Yes, regexp searching with \b is good too, but that is not what many users will want, to search for words.) WDOT? Should Juri's tip be documented now, say in node Word Search of the Emacs manual? If so, we should also mention how to toggle back to non-word incremental search. (We should call this incremental word search, BTW, not "half-incremental" search.) Should we, after the release, come up with a quicker, easier way to toggle incremental search to/from incremental word searching? ------- From: Juri Linkov Sent: Friday, February 25, 2005 12:00 PM Subject: Re: Info-search-isearch ... Word search what I call "half-incremental" is an undocumented feature that allows almost incremental search by typing `C-s M-e C-w WORDS C-s', i.e. it starts as nonincremental search, and after typing the second C-s in the minibuffer it continues as incremental search. I discovered this feature accidentally. Perhaps, it should be documented in the Emacs manual?