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Re: isearch multiple buffers


From: Juri Linkov
Subject: Re: isearch multiple buffers
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 02:52:04 +0300
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux)

> I think it should pause at the end of each buffer
> in which point was displayed during the search.
> This includes the starting buffer, and each
> buffer in which an occurrence is found.
>
> However, if search scans a whole buffer (which was not the first) and
> finds nothing, it should move on silently to the next buffer.
>
> In other words, once search redisplays with point
> in a certain buffer, you should have to type C-s to move
> on from there.
>
>     Perhaps, we should add a new user option with 3 possible values:
>     1. don't stop in the initial buffer
>     2. stop once in the initial buffer
>     3. stop in every next buffer
>
> I don't mind having some of those as optional behaviors, but the
> default I've described above is none of those three.

Actually, under the 3-rd variant I meant the same variant as you
described, i.e.

  3. stop in every buffer which contains the search string
     (and always stop in the first buffer)

So there are three useful options (and let's try using the 3-rd as the
default).

-- 
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/




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