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[PATCH] Conkeror like hints for incremental search

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From: Gideon Stupp <gideon.stupp <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: [PATCH] Conkeror like hints for incremental search
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:31:26 +0200

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Package: emacs
Tags: patch
Severity: wishlist

This patch adds Conkeror like hints to incremental-search's currently
matched strings.
This way it is possible to choose one of the highlighted possibilities
without completing the search string (useful when using incremental
search for navigation).
The hints can be toggled on or off at any point during the search with
isearch-toggle-hints (which is mapped to C-f by default). Note that to
save keystrokes characters are used as hints instead of just numbers.

Anyway, please review it and if there is any interest in it merge it.

Thanks, Gideon.

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Message #10 received at 10595 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Gideon Stupp <gideon.stupp <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 10595 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#10595: [PATCH] Conkeror like hints for incremental search
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2016 16:39:48 +1030

Gideon Stupp <gideon.stupp <at> gmail.com> writes:

> This patch adds Conkeror like hints to incremental-search's currently
> matched strings.
> This way it is possible to choose one of the highlighted possibilities
> without completing the search string (useful when using incremental
> search for navigation).
> The hints can be toggled on or off at any point during the search with
> isearch-toggle-hints (which is mapped to C-f by default). Note that to
> save keystrokes characters are used as hints instead of just numbers.
>
> Anyway, please review it and if there is any interest in it merge it.

So the idea is that if you hit `C-f' during the search, each match is
given a character as an identifier?  And if you then hit that character
then the isearch string changes to that ... word?

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   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no

Message #13 received at 10595 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Gideon Stupp <gideon.stupp <at> gmail.com>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 10595 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#10595: [PATCH] Conkeror like hints for incremental search
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2016 15:00:43 +0000 (UTC)

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Hi Lars,Hitting the character identifier is just a shortcut for pressing C-s multiple times so the search string does not change at all, only the location. 

Thanks, Gideon

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Sent: יום חמישי, פברואר 25, 2016 8:10 לפ׳
Subject: Re: bug#10595: [PATCH] Conkeror like hints for incremental search
To: Gideon Stupp <gideon.stupp <at> gmail.com>
Cc:  <10595 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>


Gideon Stupp <gideon.stupp <at> gmail.com> writes:

> This patch adds Conkeror like hints to incremental-search's currently
> matched strings.
> This way it is possible to choose one of the highlighted possibilities
> without completing the search string (useful when using incremental
> search for navigation).
> The hints can be toggled on or off at any point during the search with
> isearch-toggle-hints (which is mapped to C-f by default). Note that to
> save keystrokes characters are used as hints instead of just numbers.
>
> Anyway, please review it and if there is any interest in it merge it.

So the idea is that if you hit `C-f' during the search, each match is
given a character as an identifier?  And if you then hit that character
then the isearch string changes to that ... word?

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no



  

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Message #16 received at 10595 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Gideon Stupp <gideon.stupp <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 10595 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#10595: [PATCH] Conkeror like hints for incremental search
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2016 16:25:51 +1030

Gideon Stupp <gideon.stupp <at> gmail.com> writes:

> Hitting the character identifier is just a shortcut for pressing C-s multiple
> times so the search string does not change at all, only the location. 

Oh, I see...  Hm...  That sounds like some might find it useful, but I
don't really see myself using something like that.  I'd just `C-s' a bit
more until I was where I wanted to be.

Anybody else have an opinion on this?

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no

Message #19 received at 10595 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: John Wiegley <jwiegley <at> gmail.com>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: Gideon Stupp <gideon.stupp <at> gmail.com>, 10595 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#10595: [PATCH] Conkeror like hints for incremental search
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2016 22:43:17 -0800

>>>>> Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> writes:

> Gideon Stupp <gideon.stupp <at> gmail.com> writes:
>> Hitting the character identifier is just a shortcut for pressing C-s
>> multiple times so the search string does not change at all, only the
>> location.

> Oh, I see... Hm... That sounds like some might find it useful, but I don't
> really see myself using something like that. I'd just `C-s' a bit more until
> I was where I wanted to be.

> Anybody else have an opinion on this?

First, C-f is a key I commonly used to exit from i-search, so we cannot rebind
common movement keys like this while in "searching mode".

Also, there are several community packages which do something similar (provide
Konqueror-like navigation for everything from characters to words to search
strings to windows, etc). I don't think we need to extend venerable I-search
into this territory. If I really have that many hits visible on my screen at
once, it often means I should be using a different tool for that job.

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Message #22 received at 10595 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: John Wiegley <jwiegley <at> gmail.com>
Cc: Gideon Stupp <gideon.stupp <at> gmail.com>, John Wiegley <johnw <at> gnu.org>,
 10595 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#10595: [PATCH] Conkeror like hints for incremental search
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2016 17:32:59 +1030

John Wiegley <jwiegley <at> gmail.com> writes:

> Also, there are several community packages which do something similar (provide
> Konqueror-like navigation for everything from characters to words to search
> strings to windows, etc). I don't think we need to extend venerable I-search
> into this territory. If I really have that many hits visible on my screen at
> once, it often means I should be using a different tool for that job.

Makes sense.  I'm closing this as "wontfix".

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no

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