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

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From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>
To: Antoine Levitt <antoine.levitt <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 25562 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
Subject: bug#25562: 25.1; isearch-forward-word first matches a non-word
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2017 17:45:08 +0100

Antoine Levitt <antoine.levitt <at> gmail.com> writes:

> 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).

It's what I had expected, too.  But after I had tried it, I changed my
mind.  AFAIR I was especially annoyed that i could not anymore use C-w
to extend the search string because isearch did not go to partial
matches any more.


Michael.

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