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Isearch doesn't work properly with Follow Mode.

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From: Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de>
To: Artur Malabarba <bruce.connor.am <at> gmail.com>
Cc: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>, 17453 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>, emacs-devel <emacs-devel <at> gnu.org>
Subject: bug#17453: Isearch doesn't work properly with Follow Mode.
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2015 12:39:49 +0000

Hello, Artur.

On Mon, Nov 02, 2015 at 12:14:12PM +0000, Artur Malabarba wrote:
> >>  One way or another, isearch MUST work with the
> >> window boundaries of the entire Follow Mode group.

> > Maybe I missed part of the issue. I thought you wanted Isearch to
> > switch to another window if that window contains the next match
> > (instead of scrolling the current window). For that, you only need
> > pos-visible-in-window-p, you don't need to mess with boundaries.

> I think I see what I'm missing. Lazy-highlighting stops at the end of
> the window, so the matches on the second window won't be highlighted
> until we switch to it, right?

Absolutely!  Not forgetting, of course, matches which start near the
bottom of one window, and carry on at the top of the next window.

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

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