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bug#10148: 24.0.91; "pending" regexp Isearch


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: bug#10148: 24.0.91; "pending" regexp Isearch
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2022 08:25:10 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux)

>> It will just remove the word "pending" from the message.
>> We could use different words to show in this regexp case,
>> and another word after toggling isearch mode.
>> But I don't see how using another word would address complaints
>> about polluting the search message with useless words.
>
> Like I said, I think notifying the user about "something changed" is
> useful -- but the word "pending" is just misleading, and I think that's
> what everybody complained about.  So changing it to "Recalculated" or
> "Restarted" or "Amended" or something along those lines would be an
> improvement.

IIUC the "pending" is used to indicate that the search state hasn't been
fully updated to reflect the new search pattern.
Maybe the better fix is to fully update the search state?

I'm not sure which part of the search state hasn't been fully
updated, tho.


        Stefan






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