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Re: Closer cooperation between substring and regexp searching


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: Closer cooperation between substring and regexp searching
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 19:29:53 -0000
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.92 (gnu/linux)

> What I'd like is for C-s C-s to repeat the previous search, regardless
> of whether it was a substring or regexp search.

I use a local hack which does just that.

> Even better would be if M-p and M-n shared a common ring while
> searching, so that I could backed up over previous searches I'd see
> whatever combination of substring and regexp searches I had run.

That'd be more work and would require a change in the format of the
history, so it could break some 3rd party packages.


        Stefan


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