Re: Re: [PATCH] Conkeror like hints for incremental search
From:
gideon . stupp
Subject:
Re: Re: [PATCH] Conkeror like hints for incremental search
Date:
Wed, 25 Jan 2012 11:59:46 +0000
Chromium counts all the matches in the page, presented or hidden. For Emacs I don't think it is feasible to read the entire file. BTW isearch-lazy-highlight takes into consideration only the matches that are currently on screen.
Thanks, Gideon.
On , Juri Linkov <address@hidden> wrote: > > Nice idea. Let me try and tweak the patch to work in this way. I want to > > > test it and see how it feels. > > > > BTW, there is another useful search feature missing in Isearch. > > > > In Chromium, the Search prompt displays the current search position > > and the total number of matches. It would be useful to implement this > > in Isearch. It helps to orient oneself while searching - to see > > how many matches are remaining to visit with C-s, etc. > > > > This information could be displayed in the mode-line in the usual format > > that can be seen in some Emacs packages, e.g. "7/24". > > > > The main problem is in the performance impact to count the total > > number of matches. Perhaps to not affect the responsiveness > > these computations should be placed in `isearch-lazy-highlight'. > >