Re: isearch C-o patch (post-freeze resubmission)

[Andreas Schwab]

Per Abrahamsen <address@hidden> writes:

|> address@hidden (Kim F. Storm) writes:
|> 
|> > Kenichi Handa <address@hidden> writes:
|> >
|> >> I'll do this quite often while reading C or Lisp file:
|> >> 
|> >>   Move point to the head of function/variable, say,
|> >>   THIS-FUNCTION-DO-THIS-AND-THAT.  Then, type C-s C-w C-w
|> >>   C-w C-w C-w C-w C-s .. to search for that name.
|> >> 
|> >> With your change, I must type C-w 11 times instead of
|> >> current 6 times.
|> >
|> > I understand your concern, and I will think about how to
|> > optimize this.
|> 
|> You could make it match a symbol if over a symbol character.  However,
|> that might be too greedy, it would be more greedy in that case than
|> today.
|> 
|> You could also make it match a word if it is over either a word or a
|> symbol character, that would make Handa's case work pretty much like
|> today.

Or we could make prefix args work for isearch commands and use M-1 C-w for
grabbing the next character.

Andreas.

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