From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tom Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: New feature idea: isearch with autocorrection Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2012 19:38:28 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1345837139 4336 80.91.229.3 (24 Aug 2012 19:38:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2012 19:38:59 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 24 21:39:00 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1T4zie-0000M5-6e for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 24 Aug 2012 21:39:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45870 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T4zic-00029V-C7 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 24 Aug 2012 15:38:58 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:33100) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T4ziQ-0001k9-07 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Aug 2012 15:38:46 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T4ziO-0000Nr-Ok for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Aug 2012 15:38:45 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:54397) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T4ziO-0000Ng-IT for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Aug 2012 15:38:44 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1T4ziL-0008Si-KZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Aug 2012 21:38:41 +0200 Original-Received: from 188-143-111-130.pool.digikabel.hu ([188.143.111.130]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 24 Aug 2012 21:38:41 +0200 Original-Received: from adatgyujto by 188-143-111-130.pool.digikabel.hu with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 24 Aug 2012 21:38:41 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 15 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 188.143.111.130 (Opera/9.80 (Windows NT 6.1; U; en) Presto/2.10.289 Version/12.01) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:86497 Archived-At: I was browsing the questions on StackExchange (which you can also do here: http://stackexchange.com/filters/19474/emacs-questions?sort=noanswers ) when I saw this question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12099760/emacs-incremental-search-auto-remove-from- the-search-string-the-characters-tha The asker wants isearch to ignore the nonmatching character if a later character can be used for successful matching. What do you think? It sounds useful, not having to delete the problematic part, but simply typing the correct characters. It could be useful to have an option to turn on this feature. Would it be hard to implement?