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Re: follow mode for occur
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Robert J. Chassell |
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Re: follow mode for occur |
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Sat, 5 Jun 2004 07:56:09 -0400 (EDT) |
Today's CVS snapshot, Sat, 2004 Jun 5 10:53 UTC
GNU Emacs 21.3.50.41 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.2.4)
I just tried Dan Nicolaescu's new follow minor mode for occur. In a
short test, it works fine for both *Occur* and *compilation* buffers.
Should this mode be on by default?
I think so. I really like this. I don't know how non-programmers who
first use Emacs will respond, but I think they will like it, too.
I suppose a menu entry is a good idea, too. I don't use the menus so
my only thought about them is that we should make sure they have good
human factors.
Presumably occur and its follow mode fit into `Tools' along with grep
and multi-occur. Or perhaps a human factors analysis will put them
into `Edit' along with isearch. On thinking more about this, I think
they should all go into `Edit'.
Perhaps the listing could add `Search and List' between the existing
`Search' and `Replace' entries, like this:
Search ->
Search and List ->
Replace ->
After all, these capabilities are all various forms of navigation
used in editing:
* search and list within a single `file' (that is how many people
think of buffers) for occur and occur follow mode
* search and list within the buffers you have visited for
multi-occur
* search and list within a set of files for grep
By the way, it looks to me that isearch should come before string
search in the `Edit -> Search' menu. It is easy to learn isearch and
easy to switch from string search to isearch if you already know
string search. So the better interface should come first. Put
`string search' in a sub-sub-menu.
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