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

[Per Abrahamsen]

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.