GNU bug report logs - #10595
[PATCH] Conkeror like hints for incremental search

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Gideon Stupp <gideon.stupp <at> gmail.com>

Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:39:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: patch, wontfix

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

Forwarded to http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2012-01/msg00756.html

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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".

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