Re: lax matching is not a great default behavior

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Mark Oteiza <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 01 Dec 2015 14:51:48 -0500
> 
> Example of a long symbol in elisp: try searching for
> "tty-set-up-initial-frame-faces" in faces.el
> 
> Searching for "free software foundation" in NEWS is also very slow.

The first match is almost instantaneous here; it's the next one,
especially if it fails, is slow.

So it doesn't seem to be the search itself, it's something else that's
at work here.