Stefan Sperling wrote on Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 11:07:20 +0200: > On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 09:37:32AM +0100, Daniel Shahaf wrote: > > Stefan Sperling wrote on Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 10:07:13 +0200: > > > Overall, I like all of your suggestions, but I don't see a need for > > > us to implement them all for 1.8. In my mind, these are nice bite-size > > > tasks for our issue tracker that new contributors could pick up. > > > So I'd suggest filing a "bite-sized" issue for each of the above. > > > > Disagree. The big problem is compatibility: once you have > > --search --isearch --search-and --isearch-and > > you have committed to that particular UI. Let's figure out a UI _now_ > > that can stand all the extensions discussed (case-insensitive, > > logical and/or/not, regexes, etc). > > Geez, the perfect is the enemy of the good. > > As for regex support, well, I'm not gonna do the heavy lifting > of integrating a regex engine into our code base for 1.8.
I'm not asking for this. I'm just asking to make what we already have extensible.