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bug#13592: 24.2.92; C-s prompts with "Multi I-search:" today
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Drew Adams |
Subject: |
bug#13592: 24.2.92; C-s prompts with "Multi I-search:" today |
Date: |
Wed, 30 Jan 2013 11:08:53 -0800 |
> . Why is it a good idea to show this Multi thing at the very
> beginning of the search, when there's no evidence whatsoever that
> the search is in danger of crossing into the next file in the
> series? It's confusing to see this, because _I_ didn't ask for
> multi-file or multibuffer isearch. It took me by surprise and
> forced me to go looking for the reason (tried in other versions of
> Emacs and in other buffers, before it dawned on me that it is
> something specific to add-log mode). You want to be nice to me?
> fine: then show this to me when I type C-s that will cross into the
> next file, but not before that. _Then_ I might appreciate the
> service. But when I type my first C-s, please give me just what I
> asked for.
>
> . This should at least be documented in the manual. When I saw this
> prompt, I tried to figure out what it meant (did someone really
> think that "Multi" explains it all?), but it seems not to be
> mentioned anywhere in the docs. Even the NEWS entry for Emacs
> 23.1, which does say that isearch is automatically multi-file in
> ChangeLog files, doesn't mention this prompt. I needed to wade
> through isearch.el to find what it meant, only to find out that the
> facility used to trigger it -- multi-search-next-buffer-function --
> is not documented in the Elisp manual, either, which sounds weird
> if we consider such features useful in other modes. Is this a
> secret of some sorts?
+1 on both accounts. (And well put.)