Re: Isearch in dired

[Juri Linkov]

> As for doing a filename search based on the current column, that is a
> tad more reasonable, but still suffers from the "unexplained behavior"
> problem.  There is simply no visual clue for the user that the "dwim
> behavior" is taking place, or what rules govern it, so it will seem like
> Emacs is behaving erratically.

Fortunately, there is now a visual clue for the user in the Isearch prompt,
so we can safely enable Isearch-dwim by default, because after typing C-s
the user will clearly see in the prompt whether the Isearch mode is dwim.

> Note, also, that upon entering the Dired
> buffer, point is placed in the filename column by default, so if the
> user attempts to search for dates with C-s, the search fails by default!

Searching for dates with C-s from the first file will miss the date of the
first file because it is located before the filename.  So to search for
dates is better to start from the beginning of the dired buffer or after
moving point to the date of the first file where Isearch is not filename
only (we could later implement dwim-search for the date column only!).

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