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25.1; isearch-forward-word first matches a non-word

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From: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
To: Antoine Levitt <antoine.levitt <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 25562 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#25562: 25.1; isearch-forward-word first matches a non-word
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2017 02:30:41 +0200

> I see, thanks for the explanation. That's still unsatisfactory to me. I
> think an ideal incremental word search would just start over from the
> current point each time a new character is typed (that's what most users
> would expect). Then any non-insertion command would make the user "commit"
> to the particular search and the incremental search proper would begin. Is
> that compatible with the current design of isearch?

What you describe looks like isearch-barrier used for subsequent \| in regexps,
e.g. typing ‘C-M-s ^\<it\>’ and then ‘\|’ moves point back to the beginning
of the search.  But wouldn't this make the search too “jumpy”, especially
while typing long words?

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