RE: Word search

[Drew Adams]

Again, please use plain-text mail, not HTML mail.

        From: Vincent Belaïche Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 1:48 PM
        I am realizing that there was no mistake in the mail before the latest 
        one I sent, but that the mailing system has stripped off a part of it. 
        What I meant was "C-sxxxC-w" where instread of "xxx" I had written "RET"

        between less-than and greater-than signs. But it seems that this xxx has

        been stripped off by the mailing system.
        Similarly I meant that I terminated the interactive search by "C-s" or 
        by "xxx" where xxx has the same meaning as above (a carriage return 
        key). 

C-s does not terminate isearch. But RET (hitting `Enter') should.

        The fact is that I am writing to you with Thunderbird using an 
        adds-on that allows to use hotmail without going through the Web 
        interface (it seems that there is some bug with this when HTML is used).

Please do not use an HTML mail format for this mailing list. Please find out how
to use your plug-in or Thunderbird in a way that sends plain-text mail.
        
        > Two comments: (1) address@hidden might be a more appropriate
list.
        > Consider moving this there. (2) Please use plain-text for these
mailing lists.
        >
        > Sorry Drew, There was a mistake in my mail, I did not mean
        > "C-sC-w" but I meant "C-sC-w".
        >
        > What's the difference? They look the same to me.
        
        They were not the same when I sent the mail there was RET bracketted 
        with LT and GT signs in between "C-s" and "C-w". So when I am sending 
        this mail "C-sC-w" is different from "C-sC-w"

I cannot follow you. I don't see the difference in the HTML mail you sent.
Please use plain text and type the text you want people to read.

        > I tested it again and it does not work.
        > 
        > That you for the information on the incremental word search 
        > ("C-sM-eC-w"). I tested it on the same node, and whether I terminate
by 
        > "C-s" or by "" it fails in the same way. To tell you the truth, I 
        > had not even tried that, as the plain non incremental one was not 
        > working in the first place.
        >
        > Not sure what you mean by terminate by "C-s" or by "". 

        When I sent the mail between the pair of double quotes "" there was a 
        RET bracketted by LT and GT signs. So when I ma sending this mail "" is 
        different from "".

As you can see, it doesn't appear that way. Please use plain text, not HTML.

        > Does it at least work, in
        > the sense that it finds what you are looking for, regardless of how
you
        > terminate the search? 

        It does not find what I am looking for. When I type "C-sM-eC-w" I enter 
        Incremental word search (I can see that as on the left side of the 
        minibuffer is written "Word I-search"). Then if I type "the words" and 
        then RET I get an error message "[(wrong-type-argument 
        integer-or-marker-p t)]" 

That sounds like a bug. Please report it using `M-x report-emacs-bug'. Describe
step by step how to reproduce the problem, starting from emacs -Q (that is, with
no .emacs).

        ...
        More strange is the following: if I enter again the incremental word 
        search, and I type on the right arrow key, what happens is that the 
        content of the *info* buffer is copied character by character into the 
        minibuffer. That is to say, assume that I type 5 times on the right 
        arrow key, then the effect is as if I had entered the five characters 
        "F" "i" "l" "e" and ":" consecutively (remember that when I enter the 
        Word-I-search the *info* buffer point is pointing at the beginning the 
        text "File: emacs, Node: Word Search, Next: Regexp Search, Prev: 
        Nonincremental Search, Up: Search"

I believe that is normal; the text is copied from the source buffer to the
isearch edit area. You then must hit RET to accept the edited text as your
search string. Then hit C-s to search for that text.

FYI: address@hidden is for help questions. M-x report-emacs-bug is for
bug reports. address@hidden is for discussion of Emacs development.