bug#8861: 24.0.50; Isearch: Repeating the last search

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org> writes:

> When trying this, it seems it's worse than the default behavior because
> treating the search string char by char is useful only when you are
> typing it because highlighting the failed part helps to correct typos.
> But when you want to search for the previous search string by `C-s C-s'
> or by copy&paste from the clipboard/kill-ring it's more useful
> to treat it as a whole.  For instance, often it's necessary to
> put a string into the search ring (`C-s string RET') and search
> its exact occurrence in another buffer (`C-x o C-s C-s').
> It would be annoying when searching for e.g. "caterpillar"
> will stop at "cat" and highlight it.

Yes, it would be pretty odd...

> However, your idea is not completely useless.  Currently isearch mode
> is interactively incremental but you propose to extend it it into
> non-interactively incremental (i.e. incremental even when the search
> string is not composed interactively).  Maybe a new option/mode
> could do that but I think it should not be enabled by default.

... and in my opinion, I don't think such a would find much use, so I'm
closing this issue as "wontfix".

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