GNU bug report logs - #20232
25.0.50; doc string of `multi-isearch-buffer-list'

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

Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2015 17:37:01 UTC

Severity: minor

Found in version 25.0.50

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #8 received at 20232 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: 20232 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#20232: 25.0.50; doc string of `multi-isearch-buffer-list'
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2015 23:38:03 +0300

> Please add a doc string.  Seems that if anything in `misearch.el'
> deserves a doc string it is this variable.
>
> This is presumably the easiest and best thing for code to test, to see
> if Isearch is currently searching more than one buffer.  At least a
> glance at the code gives me that impression.  It seems better, I'm
> guessing, than testing either of these:
>
> * (and multi-isearch-next-buffer-current-function
>        (buffer-live-p multi-isearch-current-buffer))
>
> * Option multi-isearch-search.

You can see in `isearch-message-prefix' that `multi-isearch-file-list'
is used to test if Isearch is currently searching more than one file,
so do you need to have a doc string for `multi-isearch-file-list' as well?
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