Re: word search (Re: isearch in Dired)

[Juri Linkov]

>> When you want to switch to the regexp search then the most natural key
>> is "r".  When you want to switch to the word search then the most natural
>> key is "w".  Currently I see no alternative common key whose mnemonics
>> would be obvious.  So to toggle to the regexp or word search and back
>> to the non-regexp non-word search could be done using either of two keys
>> `M-s r' or `M-s w'.  It seems there is no problem with this.  In this
>> case, the following patch looks like a satisfactory solution.  It also
>> binds `M-s w' globally to start word isearch.
>
> Looks OK to me.  Please check it in ASAP, and don't forget to write a
> NEWS entry, and to document the keybinding in the docstring of
> `isearch'.

Done.

> Something that might be good to work on, after the release, is a better
> help facility for C-s, to allow the user to remind himself what the
> isearch key bindings are.  The current `C-s C-h ? [bmk]' menus aren't
> very easy to read.

BTW, I already half-finished a new help facility based on Info.
It also provides a virtual Info file for `Info-apropos' that contains
results of different invocations in separate virtual Info nodes.
I afraid it's too late to include this to 23.1.

-- 
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/