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Re: Please add comments to isearch.el
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Alan Mackenzie |
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Re: Please add comments to isearch.el |
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Fri, 11 Dec 2015 12:16:17 +0000 |
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Hello, Eli.
On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 10:13:21AM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> Ping!
> > Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2015 18:34:16 +0200
> > From: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>
> > Would someone "in the know" please add commentary to isearch.el to
> > explain how the various options are passed to the commands defined
> > there and affect or not affect them?
i'm not sure I count as someone in the know, but ....
> > The isearch.el commands are implemented using complex multi-layered
> > system of functions and macros that make it very hard to figure out,
> > just by looking at the code, which options affect what commands and in
> > what ways. About the only way to find that out is by trying each
> > command, which is very inefficient. I think it will help make this
> > file much more maintainable if commentary were added there explaining
> > how all of this works. Thanks in advance.
.... perhaps you could be a little more explicit about which "complex
multi-layered system of functions and macros" you were thinking about in
particular? Was it the one I was complaining of a few days ago, or were
you thinking of the state stack (that Drew explicitly mentioned), or
something else?
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
- Re: Please add comments to isearch.el, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/12/11
- Re: Please add comments to isearch.el,
Alan Mackenzie <=
- Re: Please add comments to isearch.el, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/12/11
- Re: Please add comments to isearch.el, Artur Malabarba, 2015/12/11
- Re: Please add comments to isearch.el, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/12/11
- Re: Please add comments to isearch.el, Artur Malabarba, 2015/12/11
- RE: Please add comments to isearch.el, Drew Adams, 2015/12/11
- Re: Please add comments to isearch.el, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/12/11
- Re: Please add comments to isearch.el, Juri Linkov, 2015/12/11
- Re: Please add comments to isearch.el, Artur Malabarba, 2015/12/11
- Re: Please add comments to isearch.el, Juri Linkov, 2015/12/11
- Re: Please add comments to isearch.el, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/12/12