Miles Bader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Something like:
>
> Global info I-search: foo
>
> [Maybe "Cross-node" would be better than "Global"?]
>
> or whatever would be even more similar to the existing "Wrapped", get
> the point across well, and address your concern about the prompt size
> bouncing around excessively.
I don't like "[initial node]" too. Your idea of using a prefix
looks better. We could have the following prefixes:
1. In the initial node:
Info I-search: foo
2. Before leaving the initial node:
Failing Info I-search: foo
3. After leaving the initial node:
Cross-node Info I-search: foo
4. When failing for the rest of the manual:
Failing Cross-node Info I-search: foo
5. After wrapping to the top node:
Wrapped Cross-node Info I-search: foo
6. Failing wrapped search:
Failing wrapped Cross-node Info I-search: foo
The prefix "Info " indicates that a special Info search is active
that will wrap to the next node instead of the top of the current node.
This can be implemented by adding a new variable `isearch-type'
holding a search type string and set in the `isearch-search-fun-function'
or the proposed `isearch-success-function'. With both these
functions defined (e.g. to search menu items, references and links
through multiple nodes in Info) the search message will look like this:
Cross-node Links Info regexp I-search: foo
In the function `isearch-message-prefix' the most suitable place for
this variable seems to be after the error prefixes ("failing", "wrapped")
and before generic search type prefixes "regexp", "word", "backward"
(shown by the arrow below):
(if isearch-success "" "failing ")
(if isearch-adjusted "pending " "")
(if (and isearch-wrapped ...) "over")
(if isearch-wrapped "wrapped ")
-> (or isearch-type "")
(if isearch-word "word " "")
(if isearch-regexp "regexp " "")
(if nonincremental "search" "I-search")
(if isearch-forward "" " backward")
(if current-input-method (concat " [" current-input-method-title "]: ")
": ")
--
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/
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