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Re: bug#17453: Isearch doesn't work properly with Follow Mode.


From: Artur Malabarba
Subject: Re: bug#17453: Isearch doesn't work properly with Follow Mode.
Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2015 23:13:34 +0000

On 29 Oct 2015 11:23 pm, "Alan Mackenzie" <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Hello, Stefan, hello, Emacs.
>
> Resuming a conversation from a year and a half ago, in it I had proposed
> a patch which made isearch work properly in a Follow Mode set of
> windows.  In the end, you rejected my patch (in effect), because...
>
> On Fri, May 09, 2014 at 10:40:07PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>
> > I must say I really dislike this hard-coding of follow-mode support in
> > isearch.el.  Isearch should not know so much about follow-mode and
> > follow-mode should not know so much about Isearch either.
>
> > IOW we should try harder to come up with more general hooks.

What if isearch just took into account all windows displaying current-buffer, instead of just the selected one?
This wouldn’t involve anything specific to follow mode, and I believe it would solve the issue, no?


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