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RE: Please add comments to isearch.el
From: |
Drew Adams |
Subject: |
RE: Please add comments to isearch.el |
Date: |
Sun, 29 Nov 2015 08:54:39 -0800 (PST) |
> Would someone "in the know" please add commentary to isearch.el to
> explain how the various options are passed to the commands defined
> there and affect or not affect them?
>
> The isearch.el commands are implemented using complex multi-layered
> system of functions and macros that make it very hard to figure out,
> just by looking at the code, which options affect what commands and in
> what ways. About the only way to find that out is by trying each
> command, which is very inefficient. I think it will help make this
> file much more maintainable if commentary were added there explaining
> how all of this works. Thanks in advance.
+1
Particularly as regards the state structure and updating it.