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RE: Please add comments to isearch.el


From: Drew Adams
Subject: RE: Please add comments to isearch.el
Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2015 08:54:39 -0800 (PST)

> Would someone "in the know" please add commentary to isearch.el to
> explain how the various options are passed to the commands defined
> there and affect or not affect them?
> 
> The isearch.el commands are implemented using complex multi-layered
> system of functions and macros that make it very hard to figure out,
> just by looking at the code, which options affect what commands and in
> what ways.  About the only way to find that out is by trying each
> command, which is very inefficient.  I think it will help make this
> file much more maintainable if commentary were added there explaining
> how all of this works.  Thanks in advance.

+1

Particularly as regards the state structure and updating it.



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