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Re: Isearch in dired
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Juri Linkov |
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Re: Isearch in dired |
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Sun, 09 Nov 2008 19:59:45 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) |
> Although it's likely that the user wants to match the filename parts of
> the Dired buffer, there are two things to note:
>
> (1) There is a significant probability that the user might want to
> match the non-file parts. For instance, the user may want to find
> all files modified on a certain date.
Using isearch to find files with a certain date is not the easiest way
to accomplish this task, especially when the date format is not ISO.
There are better tools like M-( dired-mark-sexp and find-dired
with -mtime and -mmin options. However, isearching dates and other parts
of a dired buffer will still be possible even with context-dependent
isearch - when point initially is not a file name.
> (2) For most files, the chances of a filename search string matching
> the non-file parts of the Dired buffer are very low. Basically,
> this happens only for corner cases, e.g. if the user wants to find
> a file name "1".
The false matches also include owner and group names, month names in non-ISO
formats, and sometimes even file permissions.
> Given that, I don't think it's reasonable to change the behavior of key
> sequences like C-s from their defaults.
>
> However, one possibility is to define a standard "dwim search" key
> binding, and try to use that key binding everywhere we want a command
> that tries to guess where the user wants to search. Then we can make a
> "dwim search" in Dired mean searching filenames.
Perhaps in this case it would be convenient to have one option that
enables a dwim search globally for all search types: file names in Dired,
function names in source code, etc.
--
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/
- Lazy Isearch in dired, (continued)
Re: Isearch in dired, Chong Yidong, 2008/11/09
Re: Isearch in dired, Juri Linkov, 2008/11/12
Re: Isearch in dired, Chong Yidong, 2008/11/12
Re: Isearch in dired, Juri Linkov, 2008/11/13
Re: Isearch in dired, Juri Linkov, 2008/11/16
Re: Isearch in dired, Richard M. Stallman, 2008/11/09