GNU bug report logs - #22479
25.0.50; isearch and query-replace histories do not remember if we were looking for symbols

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Message #47 received at 22479 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
To: Dima Kogan <dima <at> secretsauce.net>
Cc: 22479 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#22479: 25.0.50;
 isearch and query-replace histories do not remember if we were
 looking for symbols
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 2016 02:50:35 +0200

>> Yes, this is a harder problem.  We have to remember meta-data for
>> every search history element.  There are several possibilities:
>>
>> 4. Adding meta-data by text-properties to the strings in
>>    ‘search-ring’ and ‘regexp-search-ring’ poses a problem of saving
>>    the values in the desktop and restoring in another session.
>
> This feels like the best solution. I looked at desktop.el, and it
> doesn't save the properties, as you say. But it could be made to. Do you
> think some external packages would get broken by this change?

In addition to desktop.el, other external packages save histories as well
like savehist.el.

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