isearch-mode doesn't back up on \{0,n\}

[Stuart D. Herring]

In GNU Emacs 21.3.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars) of 
2003-04-29 on quattro
configured using `configure  --prefix=/usr/lanl --with-x --with-xpm --with-jpeg 
--with-tiff --with-png'
Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: en_US
  locale-coding-system: iso-latin-1
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t


isearch-mode's special handling for * and ? appears to need extension to the
\{\} repetition construct, as it, too, liberalizes a search (if 0 is the lower
bound on the repeat count, anyway).  Unfortunately it cannot simply be
remapped to isearch-*-char as backslashes disable * and ? but enable }!

However, with the following change in isearch-*-char, adding
(define-key map "}" 'isearch-*-char)
to the definition of isearch-mode-map should be sufficient.

        (when (= (mod (- (length isearch-string) idx) 2) 0)
    =>
        (when (= (mod (- (length isearch-string) idx) 2)
                 (if (eq last-command-char ?\}) 1 0))

There may be a more elegant way to handle the }-check, though -- perhaps an
alternate, similar function.

Thanks in advance, and happy debugging,
Davis Herring


Recent input:
ESC C-s d i \ { 0 , 2 \ } C-r C-r C-r RET ESC x e m 
a c s ESC DEL r e p o r t - e m a c s TAB RET

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