Re: Isearch and postfix input methods.

[Michael Cadilhac]

Kenichi Handa <address@hidden> writes:

> In article <address@hidden>, Michael Cadilhac <address@hidden> writes:
>
>>    Hi !
>>    I'm wondering how  I'm supposed to use isearch  with a postfix input
>>    method.
>
>>    Let's say I've buffer that contains
>
>>    hello, world !
>
>>    I'm at (point-min) with a postfix  input method. I C-s and then type
>>    `o'.   Here, the  search  is not  started  as the  character is  not
>>    /complete/. Now, how can  I go to the first match ?  If I hit space,
>>    I'll be searching for "o ", if  I hit C-s, I go to the second match,
>>    and so on.
>
>>    Is there a way to go ?
>
> It's written in Info (node Input Methods) as this:
>
>    `C-\ C-\' is especially useful inside an incremental search, because
> it stops waiting for more characters to combine, and starts searching
> for what you have already entered.
>
> Though, I admit that it's not convenient.  We long ago
> discussed about a way to improve the behaviour of isearch in
> such a case, but, as far as I remember, no one has provided
> a concrete code.

  Thanks. I though there was  another (cleaner) solution, too bad. But
  in  fact, I  don't see  any clean  modification of  the input-method
  mechanism to fix this issue. Did the previous discussion only result
  in this message in info ?

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