Re: Re: [PATCH] Conkeror like hints for incremental search

[gideon . stupp]

Nice idea. Let me try and tweak the patch to work in this way. I want to test it and see how it feels.

Thanks, Gideon.

On , Juri Linkov <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Anyway, please review it and if there is any interest in it merge it.
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> Thanks for proposing a useful feature.
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> I suggest to implement more simple and clean design that is
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> based on well-known Emacs features:
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> 1. On the next matched strings display numbers counting from 1.
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>    You could try doing with tooltips that will look like in Conkeror,
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>    (this might be too slow, but worth trying).
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>    This is easy to do in `isearch-lazy-highlight-update'
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> 2. Add a new numeric argument `count' to `isearch-repeat-forward' (`C-s')
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>    and `isearch-repeat-backward' (`C-r').
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>    This would allow easy navigation with e.g. `C-8 C-s' for the 8-th match
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>    in forward direction.
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> 3. For backward matches we could display negative numbers,
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>    and `C-s' will treat negative arguments like `C- C-8 C-s'
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>    as positive counts for backward search.
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>    Also `C-r' would treat positive arguments like `C-8 C-r' as positive
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>    counts in backward direction.  A negative arguments for `C-r' like
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>    `C- C-8 C-r' would go to the 8-th match in forward direction, naturally.
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