GNU bug report logs - #1352
23.0.60; isearch-success-function

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2008 23:45:03 UTC

Severity: normal

Merged with 1566

Done: Juri Linkov <juri <at> jurta.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #20 received at submit <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: "'Stefan Monnier'" <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: <1352 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>, <emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org>
Subject: RE: bug#1352: 23.0.60; isearch-success-function
Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2008 17:22:41 -0800

> > The name of `isearch-success-function' seems wrong, if we 
> > believe the doc string. The doc string suggests that it is
> > a predicate that filters the search hits that would
> > otherwise be available. That's very general. If that's true,
> > then the name should reflect this meaning -
> > perhaps `isearch-predicate'.
> 
> Actually, based on your description, I'd name it 
> `isearch-filter-predicate'.

Sound good to me. 

(Although by the "principe des belles oranges", an Isearch predicate could
pretty much only be for filtering.)
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