GNU bug report logs - #22090
Isearch is sluggish and eventually refuses further service with "[Too many words]".

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de>

Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2015 04:26:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Random832 <random832 <at> fastmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#22090: Isearch is sluggish and eventually refuses further
 service with "[Too many words]".
Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2015 16:37:59 +0000 (UTC)

On 2015-12-04, Artur Malabarba <bruce.connor.am <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> There were suggestions of projecting both the buffer and the search string
> (which is what case folding does) but nobody has offered to do it.
> What do you mean by "simple regexp"?

As in none of the huge character classes for folding, just the
characters the user types (normalized to all-lowercase or
all-uppercase for case-folding searches) but maybe e.g. "\s+"
for lax whitespace.
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