From: Miles Bader <snogglethorpe@gmail.com>
Cc: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, miles@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Type Ahead Find
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 07:04:08 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <fc339e4a050320140479e68cb4@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <x5oede7zy5.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>
On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 22:46:42 +0100, David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> wrote:
> > Your idea of using a prefix
> > looks better. We could have the following prefixes:
>
> Again: I don't like the left-right jump of the minibuffer caused by
> that. If there really is a need for that kind of information, can't
> we put this in the mode-line lighter of Isearch mode?
>
> Like Isearch/Wrapped, Isearch/X-Node...
It's a trade-off: having it in the I-search prompt make sure that the
user sees it; having in the mode-line is much less sure.
I think that `incidental information' (like a node name etc) is not
important enough to put in the I-search prompt, and that your concern
about the jumping around is valid there.
However I think that these various states of "wrapping" &c are _very_
important to communicate -- it can be extremely confusing for a user
if I-search is finding stuff and he doesn't realize that it's in the
other direction than he originally searched, or in another info node.
[I say this from personal experience :-]
So while your concern is valid, I think these state-indicators should
definitely be included in the prompt -- they're far too critical to
leave out.
-Miles
--
Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-20 22:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-18 19:45 Type Ahead Find Juri Linkov
2005-03-18 20:21 ` Drew Adams
2005-03-18 21:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-03-19 12:29 ` Juri Linkov
2005-03-19 21:19 ` Miles Bader
2005-03-19 22:09 ` David Kastrup
2005-03-19 23:33 ` Miles Bader
2005-03-20 20:17 ` Juri Linkov
2005-03-20 21:46 ` David Kastrup
2005-03-20 22:04 ` Miles Bader [this message]
2005-03-21 19:28 ` Juri Linkov
2005-03-20 20:14 ` Juri Linkov
2005-03-20 20:22 ` Juri Linkov
2005-03-20 0:22 ` Richard Stallman
2005-03-20 20:19 ` Juri Linkov
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