GNU bug report logs - #22991
25.0.92: C-u C-s does not display "Regexp I-search:" in the echo area

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Message #80 received at 22991 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: michael_heerdegen <at> web.de, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>,
 22991 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, bruce.connor.am <at> gmail.com,
 Kaushal Modi <kaushal.modi <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#22991: 25.0.92: C-u C-s does not display "Regexp I-search:"
 in	the echo area
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2016 01:40:55 +0200

> In the meantime, I suggest we anyway provide complete such
> information on a help key.  This "solution" can remain,
> regardless of whatother designs might be adopted to provide
> some such info all of the time (instead of just on demand).

You mean displaying this information in the *Help* buffer
like ‘?’ in query-replace does?

> Wrt this bug and the prompt, for now: Either drop any
> indication of state in the prompt (which might confuse
> people) or show only what we showed before (regexp vs
> literal), ignoring indicating char folding, case folding,
> and whitespace folding.

Right, let's keep the status quo for now, and display
only regexp-function statuses in the prompt.

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