Re: Type Ahead Find

[Miles Bader <snogglethorpe@gmail.com>]

On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 23:09:13 +0100, David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> wrote:
> >    I-search (in node File Variables): local variables
> >
> > That's also more similar to other "informational messages" used by
> > search, e.g., "overwrapped" or whatever.
> 
> Please not.  Tags like that make the search text jump left and right
> as they change, which makes it harder to keep track of it.  For a
> basic error condition once per search, this is tolerable.  As a
> regular part of the operation (as when going through several files),
> it isn't.

Yeah; the node-name info is gratuitous anyway - - the node name is
already right there in the modeline about .5 cm above the i-search
prompt.

Something like:

   Global info I-search:  foo

[Maybe "Cross-node" would be better than "Global"?]

or whatever would be even more similar to the existing "Wrapped", get
the point across well, and address your concern about the prompt size
bouncing around excessively.

-Miles
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