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28.0.50; Improvements to Edit->Search menu

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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, Ihor Radchenko <yantar92 <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 43308 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, stefankangas <at> gmail.com, juri <at> linkov.net
Subject: bug#43308: 28.0.50; Improvements to Edit->Search menu
Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2020 09:26:13 -0700 (PDT)

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FWIW: Attached are screenshots showing the Search menu
that I use, in menu-bar+.el.

The only thing in the screenshots that isn't vanilla
is submenu Search > Icicles.  The rest is all vanilla.
There are 5 submenus (besides Icicles).

You can see how I deal with forward & backward, with
with incremental & nonincremental, and with repeated
nonincremental (forward & backward).  I think it's
pretty clear for users.

(I used to have nonincremental items at top level,
but moved them to a submenu because their use is
less common now.  Admittedly, if someone uses this a
lot then accessing via submenu is less efficient.)

__________
Search
  Incremental Search >
  Nonincremental Search >
  Replace >
  Xref >
  Tags >
__________
Files Regexp (`grep')...
This Buffer Regexp...
Buffers Regexp...
Buffers Regexp for Bufname Regexp...
__________

The last 3 items are for `occur', `multi-occur',
and `multi-occur-in-matching-buffers'.

[drew-emacs-menubar-Search-Incremental-Search.png (image/png, attachment)]

[drew-emacs-menubar-Search-Nonincremental-Search.png (image/png, attachment)]

[drew-emacs-menubar-Search-Replace.png (image/png, attachment)]

[drew-emacs-menubar-Search-Xref.png (image/png, attachment)]

[drew-emacs-menubar-Search-Tags.png (image/png, attachment)]

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