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Re: New feature idea: isearch with autocorrection


From: Vagn Johansen
Subject: Re: New feature idea: isearch with autocorrection
Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2012 19:45:38 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.1 (windows-nt)

Tom <adatgyujto@gmail.com> writes:

> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12099760/emacs-incremental-search-auto-remove-from-
>  the-search-string-the-characters-tha
>
> The asker wants isearch to ignore the nonmatching character if
> a later character can be used for successful matching.
>
> What do you think? It sounds useful, not having to delete the
> problematic part, but simply typing the correct characters.

This sounds a bit weird.

> It could be useful to have an option to turn on this feature.
> Would it be hard to implement?
>

Something close this behaviour can be found in fuzzy.el

  https://github.com/m2ym/fuzzy-el/blob/master/fuzzy.el

It has support for isearch (use turn-on-fuzzy-isearch).

-- 
Vagn Johansen


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