[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
bug#46469: 27.1; `isearch-del-char' should move point further back
From: |
Juri Linkov |
Subject: |
bug#46469: 27.1; `isearch-del-char' should move point further back |
Date: |
Thu, 29 Apr 2021 00:37:12 +0300 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) |
>> But this change will cause a problem to me. Usually, I type 'C-s'
>> several times with a non-empty search string to arrive to Nth occurrence.
>> Then to be able to continue the search with a shorter string, I remove
>> some characters from the search string with 'C-M-d' (isearch-del-char).
>> Then continue searching with 'C-s' from the same place. But with the patch,
>> 'C-M-d' unexpectedly jumps to a previous match, and every next 'C-M-d'
>> jumps back it its previous match that makes no sense.
>
> I can verify this. But I think you just found a related but independent
> issue. Consider this example:
>
> (progn
> (save-excursion (insert "a1 b2 a3"))
> (isearch-mode t t)
> (isearch-printing-char ?a)
> (isearch-repeat-forward)
> (isearch-printing-char ?\\)
> (isearch-printing-char ?|)
> (isearch-printing-char ?b))
>
> When "\\|b" is added to search string, the point is at "3". So it
> shouldn't move, right? But instead it goes back to "2".
>
> Do you get the same behavior?
I tested it in non-regexp mode, and the aforementioned use case is also
for non-regexp mode.
But in the regexp mode, maybe what you found is a bug.