GNU bug report logs - #43308
28.0.50; Improvements to Edit->Search menu

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Message #23 received at 43308 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: stefankangas <at> gmail.com
Cc: 43308 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, yantar92 <at> gmail.com
Subject: Re: bug#43308: 28.0.50; Improvements to Edit->Search menu
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2020 19:38:12 +0300

> Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2020 19:30:02 +0300
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
> Cc: 43308 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, yantar92 <at> gmail.com
> 
> > Users are more familiar with incremental search, for example from
> > Firefox.  I checked, and Chromium also has it, and IIRC so does Safari.
> > Assuming that our users have used any of those web browsers, they will
> > already have had exposure to incremental search.
> 
> The example apps you show are not editors.

And, btw, their incremental search works subtly differently: once you
click the Next or Previous button, typing characters doesn't
necessarily modify the search string, you need to click in the search
field for that.

So even if the user has some experience with these browsers, they
won't necessarily feel at home with Emacs's Isearch.

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